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What matters is not just what's there. It's what could be there. But how do you figure out what could be there? Knowing the zoning rules...
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Quang Truong
- May 31, 2022
- 6 min
Featured Customer: Design Research Office (DRO)
"At the end of the day DRO is focused on delivering high quality buildings but recognizes that architects today increasingly need to step...
Quang Truong
- May 23, 2022
- 2 min
Better, Part 2: Lessons from Rafael Nadal
I use the word 'better' a lot. UrbanForm's mission is to support and empower the people trying to make better buildings, cities, and...
Quang Truong
- May 15, 2022
- 4 min
Featured 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 Truong
- May 9, 2022
- 1 min
Better, Part 1: Why Curiosity and Optimism Should Be the Drivers
If 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 Truong
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
We are pleased to announce the launch of UrbanForm Seattle
Starting today, UrbanForm now provides accurate zoning information, instantly available online, to facilitate development, design, and...
Quang Truong
- Apr 25, 2022
- 10 min
Featured 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 Truong
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Why We Need a Better Definition of Innovation in Architecture, Part 1: Because of Guggenheim
In 2014, Guggenheim launched a massively ambitious design competition for a new museum in Helsinki, Finland. All architecture lovers know...
Quang Truong
- Apr 11, 2022
- 5 min
Featured 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 Truong
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
We don't talk about zoning, no, no, no
My least favorite part about being an architect? Doing the zoning. Thousands of pages of text, tables, maps, charts, and formulas that...
Quang Truong
- Apr 3, 2022
- 14 min
Featured Customer: Habitat for Humanity
Our second featured customer needs almost no introduction: Habitat for Humanity. UrbanForm co-founder and CEO Quang Truong had a...
Quang Truong
- Mar 28, 2022
- 1 min
UrbanForm Seattle is now available
It's a ‘soft launch’. We’re happy to announce the ‘soft launch’ of UrbanForm Seattle today, taking the same power to communicate...
Quang Truong
- Mar 20, 2022
- 24 min
Featured 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 Truong
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
International Women's Day 2022
We'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 Truong
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Are 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 Truong
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
We Love Architects
We built UrbanForm because we love architecture, and we believe in the power of architects to shape our environment for the better. Image...
Quang Truong
- Feb 15, 2022
- 2 min
UrbanForm 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 Truong
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
A 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 Truong
- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
Press: Portland Business Journal
We’re happy to be featured in the Portland Business Journal. Check it out! "Portland startup Polytechnica wants to make it easier to...
Quang Truong
- Nov 22, 2021
- 1 min
MaxBuild: exclusive AI zoning-derived stats and visualizations
We’ve been working on this a while, and we’re happy to introduce MaxBuild, a set of exclusive, proprietary statistics and visualizations...
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