Payette's digital strategies group demonstrates the potential for data-driven design. And they are hiring.

2022-08-31T11:57:00-04:00

Earlier this month, we used our Job Highlights series to ask the question: ‘What does a building scientist do, and how can architects become one?’ Our vehicle to answer this question was an open position at Boston-based Payette, whose search for a building scientist to join the practice offered an insight to where design firms see the specialist role integrating into the wider team.

For this week’s Job Highlights edition, we are adopting a similar tactic with another open role at Payette. Where our previous piece sought to understand the role of an individual position in the practice, we are broadening our scope this week to explore how an entire in-house team at Payette leverages data science to inform the design process.

Related on Archinect: What a building scientist does, and how architects can become one. Image: Tufts University Science and Engineering Complex by Payette. Photo: Chuck Choi.

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How do web developers intersect with architectural practice?

2022-08-03T12:19:00-04:00

In our 2021 feature titled Meet the Architects Designing Software to Fight Climate Change, we explored the intersection between architecture and web development by speaking to four firms who have internally developed software to support their design process.

Among the firms we spoke to was Boston-based Sasaki. In our conversation, we learned that the benefits of creating in-house software and applications led Sasaki to form an entire division of designers, planners, data scientists, and software developers dedicated full-time to web development. Named Sasaki Strategies, the group’s output can vary widely, from interactive apps and software to data visualization and storytelling.

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The propagation of such teams within architectural practices will unlock new career opportunities for architects interested in pivoting towards web development; opportunities we have explored in previous editions of our Job Hig...

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Payette's digital strategies group demonstrates the potential for data-driven design. And they are hiring.

How do web developers intersect with architectural practice?