I had a great conversation with the Director of Design Technology at one of the largest national architecture firms in the nation, and...

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...

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...

I had the chance to lunch with another of UrbanForm's first adopters this past week. I would have characterized this person as slightly...

With all of the attention on the need for multi-family housing lately, like in this recent article by the Portland Business Journal, how...

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...

In the last two architecture firms where I was employed, I watched both offices get dragged kicking and screaming into adopting Building...

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...

When I was growing up, Rip City meant one thing: the Portland Trailblazers. But today, mention 'Rip' in architecture, real estate, and...

An UrbanForm customer, a mid-sized architecture firm, emailed us last week, saying they used one of our automatically downloadable...

Here's a quick use-case scenario of UrbanForm for you: Find properties that: 1) allow household living uses; 2) are corner lots with...

So UrbanForm customers can respond more immediately to that fundamental question: what can I build here? Based on customer feedback, we...

In short, because of land-use restrictions. From a great post by Alex Tabarrok in Marginal Revolution. "Why has housing become so...

What can both Katerra and Le Corbusier teach us about how to define innovation in architecture? I remember when I was working at Richard...

"By regulating what gets built and where, [zoning] sets the basic spatial parameters of where and thus how we live, work, play,...

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...

"At the end of the day DRO is focused on delivering high quality buildings but recognizes that architects today increasingly need to step...

I use the word 'better' a lot. UrbanForm's mission is to support and empower the people trying to make better buildings, cities, and...

"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...

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...