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Meet crafty collaborators Lang Architecture: Your Next Employer?

2022-06-07T12:47:00-04:00

For the inaugural edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series, we shine the spotlight on New York-based Lang Architecture.

From their studio on Broadway in Manhattan, the firm is led by principal Drew Lang, who started the practice having settled in NYC after his architectural training at Yale University: A journey he outlined in a 2020 feature on Archinect.

Now counting over a dozen members, the firm is currently advertising for three positions on Archinect Jobs: a Project Architect, a Project Designer, and an Interior Designer.

Chelsea Townhouse by Lang Architecture

Through what Lang calls “generational sustainability through connected design,” the studio places a strong emphasis on collaborations, dialogues, and partnerships in its work. This attention to dialogue includes client-facing discussions about needs and desires but also extends into the design community itself. “Collaboration with artists, craftspeople, and the design community is essential to our approach,” Lang no...

Networking tip: Small talk

2019-10-21T14:15:00-04:00

Small talk is a dreaded practice for many professionals. It's often forced, and the parties involved participate out of obligation as opposed to genuine interest. Naturally, there are those of us who don't mind it, we actually enjoy it. Instead of hysterically pressing the close door button in the elevator, we hold the door, and seemlessly start a little small talk.

But, there are those of us who, on our way to get coffee, turn around and go back to our desks if we see someone else in the break room. I can wait, we think, I want to get my coffee in peace. We put on our headphones to signal we are busy and avoid eye contact with our talkative peers.

It's easier to pull this off during the work day, even at lunch, we can continue our avoidance, but in social settings we aren't so fortunate. What about Beer Fridays? Holiday parties? Networking events? Even meetings? Will our anti-social tendencies serve us well in these settings? It's not always the best idea to alienate ourselves f...

Networking tip: When enemies become allies

2019-10-16T14:05:00-04:00

We all have enemies

'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.'

- Sun Tzu

Relationships are a crucial part of professional success. There are few things that we can do completely on our own—we need allies. But, sometimes we have enemies, they come in all forms and arise from many factors. Perhaps a coworker who doesn't like us (or who we do not like), a difficult member of the project team, or a foe at the planning department.

Whoever it may be, encountering opposition from another human is a part of life as a professional. But, often times, there are opportunities for an enemy to become an ally.

Disarm their assumptions

We tend to decide we do not like someone because of an observed assumption we make about them or their character. She thinks she's so much sma...

Upcoming IIDEXCanada 2014 adds Gehry Partners’ David Mirvish + David Nam as keynote speakers

2014-11-19T15:48:00-05:00

IIDEXCANADA is almost here! Canada's national architecture and design expo and conference will be celebrating its 30th anniversary at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on December 3-4. The two-day event is a great opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and socialize with over 20,000 fellow attendees. Over 350 exhibitors, more than 50 accredited seminars, and special feature exhibitions on multiple disciplines in the architecture and design community will be featured this year.

It's almost a lineup of Davids for the 2014 keynote speakers. Joining David Rockwell and Daniel Libeskind are David Mirvish and David Nam of Gehry Partners. Mirvish and Nam will be in conversation with Globe and Mail Publisher and CEO Phillip Crawley about Mirvish's new development, Mirvish + Gehry Toronto.

Read more about IIDEXCANADA and how to register over on Bustler.

Tomorrow's cities: Do you want to live in a smart city?

2013-08-19T15:02:00-04:00

How do you fancy living in a city with which you can interact? A city that acts more like a living organism, a city that can respond to your needs. [...] But how do we get to this smarter future. Who will be monitoring and controlling the sensors that will increasingly be on every building, lamp-post and pipe in the city? And is it a future we even want?