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From Architekten to Architektur: the Zurich cooperative that named itself after the work
Zurich cooperative pool became pool Architektur in 2026. How a weekly all-partner crit and shared income kept 500+ projects going without a star name.
BKG Architekten at 75: A New Zürich Address and the 15–20 Question
Zürich's BKG Architekten, founded 1951, marks 75 years at a new address. Its jubilee text names 15–20 staff as the optimal size. What is right for yours?
Post-occupancy on yourself: why EM2N opened its own office at Open House Zurich
EM2N opened its own low-tech office at Open House Zürich 2026. Why a partner-led tour is post-occupancy on yourself, and a five-decision tour script.
The SIA fee formula is gone. Now your office has to argue the number.
LHO:2026 withdraws the SIA fee-cost formula after a WEKO intervention. Swiss offices must now argue the number from their own effort data — here's how to start.
Fourteen years, one floor system: what VAULTED teaches a small Swiss office
VAULTED AG took fourteen years from a cathedral thesis to CreaTower I in Zug. What a small Swiss practice borrows: one system, shared models, IFC discipline.
Reality capture became a layer in someone else's platform — who owns your site record?
Procore's $845m DroneDeploy buy turns reality capture into a platform layer. The real asset is the scene graph — who owns your site record now?
The Junior Prompts, the Partner Signs: What Two AI-Telemetry Papers Mean for a 14-Person Office
Two August 2026 field papers on ChatGPT and KPMG AI use show the review load moving up the ladder — and why a 14-person office needs a policy, not a licence.
ASML books 'documentation recovery' as engineering — and so should your 14-person studio
ASML funds a decade-long program to keep 1990s scanners alive through documentation recovery — the same knowledge debt a 14-person practice carries undocumented.
The copilot we let into the model — and the door it left open
Microsoft Copilot's 2026 prompt-injection leak echoes the 2023 "Sydney" jailbreak. For a Swiss studio, the fix is a written access policy, not a licence.
Class, struct, or record: the three-way choice that mutates 4,000 points
A hands-on C# tutorial for computational designers: when a coordinate should copy and a model element should be shared — value vs reference, on 4,000 points.
