Archinect - Features 2024-05-03T10:10:58-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149993423/can-skwerl-bring-architecture-into-the-on-demand-economy Can Skwerl Bring Architecture into the “On-Demand” Economy? Nicholas Korody 2017-02-23T12:15:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/aj/ajrs1ysjd1cc7rvo.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Technologies, from computation to automation, have certainly and radically altered architecture. So have the economic transformations that accompanied their emergence as well as the concurrent financial crisis. But, in the era of mass disruptions, technological and otherwise, architecture has remained, in at least one way, largely unscathed.&nbsp;That is to say, the firm structure (for better and worse) persists while other industries have succumbed to an &ldquo;on-demand economy&rdquo; marked by flexible hours, scant job protection, and little-to-no employee benefits. Is that about to change?</p>