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Practical writing on capturing decisions, surviving staff turnover, and keeping knowledge inside the practice — from the team building lintil.
What your practice loses when someone leaves — and how to keep it
When an architect moves on, the drawings stay but the reasoning often walks out with them. Here's where that knowledge actually lives, why handovers miss it, and how to build a record that survives turnover.
Read more →Could AI cause a knowledge crisis in architecture?
Reflections from a Manchester Society of Architects event on AI and the built environment — and why the biggest opportunity may be preserving the expertise we already have, not generating more information.
Read more →You can see the what, but not the why
The drawings survive, but the reasoning behind them slowly disappears. On architecture's quiet knowledge problem, and why so much hard-won expertise is never captured in a way others can learn from.
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