In the $800 billion nonresidential construction industry, it is the nation's largest design and construction firms—the AEC Giants—that are pushing innovation. Accelerate AEC is an online forum for showcasing the best ideas from the AEC Giants.
Placemaking, like architecture, has long been considered more of an art than a science, based on the notion that utilizing scientific approaches that optimize for efficiency would result in places that are soulless and uninviting.
By: Wolf Mangelsdorf, Partner, BuroHappold Engineering
Micro-buildings design expert Aeron Hodges, AIA, explores the key drivers of the micro-buildings movement, and how the trend is spreading into a wide variety of building typologies.
Embassy designer Tom Jacobs explores ways that provide the needed protection while keeping intact the representational and inspirational qualities of a design.
By: Tom Jacobs, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Krueck + Sexton
