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How financial technology benefits from architectural design

2018-04-16T16:13:00-04:00

Design lies at the heart of both architecture and software. People continuously try to define what design is (which maybe means designers are not good at designing design), and the reason is perhaps because there is no single type of design but several. Here I’m going to talk about three that are relevant to both architects and fintech: blueprint-based design, recipe-based design, and systems design.

David Galbraith, previously featured in our Working Out of the Box series, explores what financial technology can learn from architectural design by diving into three design types. Galbraith has worked for Norman Foster and Fisher Park, and is currently a partner with Anthemis Group, a VC firm that focuses on financial services.

Editor's Picks #248

2012-01-29T21:08:00-05:00

This week the U.S. Department of Energy announced the 20 collegiate teams selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 and unveiled the competition’s location, the Orange County Great Park. caffeine junkie is disheartened by the decision "This is a real miss-step in my opinion.

In New, Energy-Efficient Technologies, Part II, the latest installment of the Contours feature, Sherin Wing, turned her attention to work from two teams at MIT who are developing the next generation of photovolotaic systems using metamaterials. Regardless of these advances however, Sherin concluded "Even then, when these super PVs do come online, to confuse availability with widespread, institutionalized use is to conflate two very different issues. Making them available will be half the battle."

In the latest In Focus feature Archinect interviewed Portland-based photo artist Jim Kazanjian. He received nothing but complements for his work in the comments.

For our third and final feature this week Columbia University GSAPP Fast Forward, Jason Ivaliotis, profiles a semesters worth of work by Columbia students made using the Vray RT rendering engine for 3D Studio Max . Therein we read "The components of the course exist as three forms of the same product: (1) the interactive comp...

Should architects design buildings as if they were Web apps?

2012-01-27T15:31:00-05:00

David Galbraith has embarked on a fascinating journey, exploring the notion that the flow of people and their interactions inside buildings, is similar in design to the flow of data and user interaction of Web apps. Could best practices in Web app design be applied to architectural design?

Also, check out Archinect's interview with David Galbraith.