Featured customer: Rallymade
Many of you know Rallymade principal Jennifer Wright through her tireless activity on the AIA's Small Firms Exchange; or, through her...
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Quang Truong
- Sep 27
- 2 min
The Fundamental Challenge
Part of the fundamental challenge UrbanForm faces is that, in the US, each city has its own zoning code and system. The solution...
Quang Truong
- Sep 15
- 1 min
Reports about the death of single-family zoning have been greatly exaggerated
While headlines about recent zoning changes have touted the "end of single-family housing", the reality is much more nuanced. Just...
Quang Truong
- Sep 12
- 7 min
Featured customer: UrbanLens Planning, LLC
We couldn't be happier to introduce UrbanLens Planning, LLC as one of UrbanForm's newest users. UrbanLens Planning is one of the most...
Quang Truong
- Sep 7
- 2 min
Be it ordained by the City of Seattle
Recently, Seattle's zoning code changed. Ordinance 126509 (https://lnkd.in/gc7wNjvC) changes the zoning name for all "Single Family"...
Quang Truong
- Sep 1
- 2 min
A Meat Sandwich?
I had a great conversation with the Director of Design Technology at one of the largest national architecture firms in the nation, and...
Quang Truong
- Aug 29
- 2 min
You’ll never get an architect to admit this.
But every architect I know has a variation on this story. The story goes like this: a project gets kicked off and the entire team eagerly...
Quang Truong
- Aug 24
- 1 min
When we see one of our customers using UrbanForm heavily, we know it's a good sign
Not only because it shows they are finding value with it, but also because it means they've got a full pipeline of work they're...
Quang Truong
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Testimonial: "It's about information management. . . "
I had the chance to lunch with another of UrbanForm's first adopters this past week. I would have characterized this person as slightly...
Quang Truong
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Use-case: multi-family housing
With all of the attention on the need for multi-family housing lately, like in this recent article by the Portland Business Journal, how...
Quang Truong
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Use case: new markets for architects
I had the chance to catch up with one of UrbanForm’s first adopters over the weekend. They had asked for advanced access to UrbanForm...
Quang Truong
- Aug 7
- 2 min
What if architects had adopted BIM first?
In the last two architecture firms where I was employed, I watched both offices get dragged kicking and screaming into adopting Building...
Quang Truong
- Aug 3
- 1 min
We're hearing this question a lot
In Portland and Seattle, we’re hearing this question a lot: “Can I build an ADU on my property?” Given the advent of Airbnb, the move...
Quang Truong
- Jul 27
- 2 min
RIP City?
When I was growing up, Rip City meant one thing: the Portland Trailblazers. But today, mention 'Rip' in architecture, real estate, and...
Quang Truong
- Jul 25
- 1 min
We got it wrong.
An UrbanForm customer, a mid-sized architecture firm, emailed us last week, saying they used one of our automatically downloadable...
Quang Truong
- Jul 18
- 1 min
Use-case: Finding ADU-receptive Properties
Here's a quick use-case scenario of UrbanForm for you: Find properties that: 1) allow household living uses; 2) are corner lots with...
Quang Truong
- Jun 28
- 1 min
Introducing: MaxBuild Calculator
So UrbanForm customers can respond more immediately to that fundamental question: what can I build here? Based on customer feedback, we...
Quang Truong
- Jun 23
- 1 min
Why Housing Demand Increases Costs And Not Quantities
In short, because of land-use restrictions. From a great post by Alex Tabarrok in Marginal Revolution. "Why has housing become so...
Quang Truong
- Jun 21
- 3 min
Katerra and Le Corbusier, or: A Better Definition of Innovation, Part 2
What can both Katerra and Le Corbusier teach us about how to define innovation in architecture? I remember when I was working at Richard...
Quang Truong
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Zoned and Confused
"By regulating what gets built and where, [zoning] sets the basic spatial parameters of where and thus how we live, work, play,...