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<p>Today’s uncanny AI renderings are just the tip of theiceberg. Architects are banding together to clean up their digital houses, master data literacy, collectively bargain for their needs with software monopolies, and ultimately, prevent technology rendering them irrelevant. Enter the <a href="https://www.innovationdesignconsortium.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Innovation Design Consortium</a>, an elite corps of leaders and technologists of America’s 40 largest architecturefirms, who have banded together to battle the bots. Unfrozen interviews its Chair, <a href="https://www.hed.design/people/j-peter-devereaux" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Peter Devereaux</a>, Founding Principal of <a href="https://www.hed.design/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">HED</a>.Among many other things, he says, “We have to get out of the business of selling our time by the hour for the production of two-dimensional construction documents.”</p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>The Road to IDC: Writing guidelines for the use ofgenerative AI via the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT)</p><p>See also: “<a href="https://urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-future-of-generative-ai/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Future of Generative AI</a> in Architecture, Design and Engineering,” Cornell Tech</p><p>Key players:</p><p>- <a href="https://www.bdcnetwork.com/blog/carole-wedge-shepley-bulfinch-retires" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Carole Wedge</a>, <a href="https://shepleybulfinch.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Shepley Bulfinch</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-packard-b0901bb0/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Bob Packard</a>, <a href="https://www.zgf.com/leadership/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">ZGF</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.cannondesign.com/people/brad-lukanic" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Brad Lukanic</a>, Cannon Design</p><p>Other leading lights in the AI 4 AEC community:</p><p><a href="https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/339-phillip-bernstein" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Phillip Bernstein</a>, Yale</p><p><a href="https://www.thorntontomasetti.com/person/christopher-minerva" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Chris Minerva, Thornton Tomasetti</a></p><p><a href="https://www.hok.com/people/leadership/view/greg-schleusner/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Greg Schluesner,</a><br>Executive Committee Secretary, IDC <br>Director of Design Technology, HOK</p><p><a href="https://dataleaders.net/data-leaders-appoints-volker-buscher-as-chief-data-officer/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Volker Buscher</a>, <br>Chief Data Officer, Data Leaders<br>Former Chief Data Officer, Arup</p><p><a href="https://www.fr.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Fish & Richardson</a> </p><p>- IP Law, terms and conditions, “give to get”</p><p>Is this the “anti-Autodesk”?
