Writing

The following is a collection of essays I've written for magazines and blogs over the years. If you'd like to read my peer-reviewed articles, head over to the publications section.

2024

2024 Workplace Futures Report (Indesign Live). Workplaces on Campus: New dynamics for a distinctive workforce (Hassell). The Big Calm: Workplace Futures Survey (Hassell). The State of Tech Industry Workplaces (Hassell). Redefining workspaces: the rise of the desk-less office (Hassell).

2023

Great Adaptations: 2023 Workplace Futures Survey (Hassell). From Office to Oasis: How landlords and developers can transform workplaces with green spaces (Hassell). The Three-Day-a-Week Office: A strategy for the new era of hybrid working (Hassell).

2022

The Magnetic Workplace: 2022 Workplace Futures Survey (Hassell). Better Design Decisions: Architecture and data (Architect Australia). The Elastic Office Building (Hassell).

2021

The Architecture of Social Media (Architect Magazine). CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting (Blog). The headlines say people want to work 2-3 days from home… Are they right? (Hassell). Katerra’s $2 Billion Legacy (Architect Magazine). Five Models for the Post-Pandemic Workplace (Harvard Business Review). Why You’ll Probably Return to the Office – Even if You Don’t Want to (Blog).

2020

Modular Architecture is Back. Is it Better? (Architect Magazine). Architects Versus Autodesk (Architect Magazine). Generative Design is Doomed to Fail (Blog).

2019

What ‘The Future of The Professions’ Reveals About the Future of Architecture (Blog). Can Algorithms Design Buildings? (Architect Magazine). Here Come Big Tech and the Venture Capitalists (Architect Magazine). How Coworking Spaces Affect Employees’ Professional Identities (Harvard Business Review). Vertically Integrated Research: An unusual business model (AD).

2016

SmartGeometry in Sweden and in Space (Architect Magazine). Spatial Analytics: New Ways of Understanding Architecture at WeWork R&D (WeWork).

2015

Modelling Practice (Design Modelling Symposium). On Designalyze (Designalyze). The Underrated Success of Stevens (Architect Magazine). The Next Generation of Computational Design (Architect Magazine). Why Architects Can’t Be Automated (Architect Magazine). How Big Data is Transforming Architecture (Architect Magazine). The Growing Importance of Research in Practice (Architect Magazine).

2014

What’s Next for Autodesk is What’s Next for Architects (Architect Magazine). Where Gender Inequity Persists in Architecture: The Technology Sector (Architect Magazine). How to Draw a Hyperboloid (Blog). Not Everything is Captured by the Fitness Function (Colon). Smartgeometry: Drones, Games, and Mathematics are What’s Next in Urban Design (Architect Magazine). What’s Past and What’s Next in Architecture at the Venice Biennale (Architect Magazine). Architects are More Productive Than Statistics Indicate (Architect Magazine). Designing Architecture Like We Design Software (ENR). Find Yourself and Get Ahead of Technology (Architect Magazine).

2013

Big Data (AEC Mag). PhD Thesis – Modelled on Software Engineering: Flexible Parametric Models in the Practice of Architecture (RMIT University). Parametric Typography (Blog). A History of Parametric (Blog). Practice 2.0: 10 Years of Smart Geometry (ArchDaily). FabPod (Blog). Design Ecosystems: Customising the Architectural Design Environment with Software Plug-ins (AD).

2011

Parametric modelling is hard (Blog). Scripting cultures – Mark Burry (Blog). The MacLeamy curve (Blog). Datamining Grasshopper (Blog). Patenting Geometry (Blog). DesignScript – Autodesk (Blog). HTML5 & WebGL (Blog). Inside Smart Geometry (Blog). Live Programming in Rhino (Blog). Dermoid (Blog). Responsive Acoustic Surfaces (Blog). A computer scientists dream system for designing houses (Blog).

2010

Schumacher on Schumacher (Blog). The logic of architecture (Blog). The New Mathematics of Architecture (Blog). Patrik Schumacher – Parametricism (Blog). Optimisation in the 1960s and 2010 (Blog). Do relationships matter? (Blog). What the GUI cost architecture (Blog).