Quang Truong6 days ago4 minFeatured Customer: Bora Architects"My hope is that we broaden the perspectives we hold as designers and the tools that we use to engage the communities we serve." - Brian...
Quang TruongMay 101 minBetter, Part 1: Why Curiosity and Optimism Should Be the DriversIf you feel that buildings can’t get any better than they already are, then there’s no reason to do anything differently from how they’ve...
Quang TruongMay 21 minWe are pleased to announce the launch of UrbanForm SeattleStarting today, UrbanForm now provides accurate zoning information, instantly available online, to facilitate development, design, and...
Quang TruongApr 2610 minFeatured Customer: SQFT Studios"We’re doing anything we can to try to help the housing crisis and really move the needle on that by adding density to the city of...
Quang TruongApr 202 minWhy We Need a Better Definition of Innovation in Architecture, Part 1: Because of GuggenheimIn 2014, Guggenheim launched a massively ambitious design competition for a new museum in Helsinki, Finland. All architecture lovers know...
Quang TruongApr 115 minFeatured customer: Abe Design Group"My dream is to work in Portland and the greater Pacific Northwest on passive house projects that combine both modern and traditional...
Quang TruongApr 62 minWe don't talk about zoning, no, no, noMy least favorite part about being an architect? Doing the zoning. Thousands of pages of text, tables, maps, charts, and formulas that...
Quang TruongApr 414 minFeatured Customer: Habitat for HumanityOur second featured customer needs almost no introduction: Habitat for Humanity. UrbanForm co-founder and CEO Quang Truong had a...
Quang TruongMar 281 minUrbanForm Seattle is now availableIt's a ‘soft launch’. We’re happy to announce the ‘soft launch’ of UrbanForm Seattle today, taking the same power to communicate...
Quang TruongMar 2024 minFeatured Customer: YBA Architects“Thinking about projects from the standpoint of how the design enhances the everyday lives of people is a very noble endeavor.” - Alex...
Quang TruongMar 111 minInternational Women's Day 2022We'd like to shine a spotlight on UrbanForm's co-founder, Anna Shakotko. Anna has an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in economics from the...
Quang TruongMar 72 minAre Use Classifications Outdated?For the past couple of years, many office spaces sat empty while residential spaces became our de facto offices. The zoning specifically...
Quang TruongMar 31 minWe Love ArchitectsWe built UrbanForm because we love architecture, and we believe in the power of architects to shape our environment for the better. Image...
Quang TruongFeb 152 minUrbanForm Is Better Than 'Back-Of-The-Envelope'Zoning is so complicated that most of the time a 'back-of-the-envelope' calculation is done to figure out development capacity: i.e., get...
Quang TruongJan 272 minA House Came Up For Sale. Was This An Opportunity?Our friends got word that a tiny old house across the street in their neighborhood was going up for sale. But it seemed like there could...
Quang TruongDec 24, 20211 minPress: Portland Business JournalWe’re happy to be featured in the Portland Business Journal. Check it out! "Portland startup Polytechnica wants to make it easier to...
Quang TruongNov 23, 20211 minMaxBuild: exclusive AI zoning-derived stats and visualizationsWe’ve been working on this a while, and we’re happy to introduce MaxBuild, a set of exclusive, proprietary statistics and visualizations...
Quang TruongMay 4, 20211 minBrian Libby interviews Co-Founder Quang TruongBrian Libby, one of the nation’s most widely published architectural writers, recently published an interview with UrbanForm co-founder...