Arcfluence - The Architecture and Design Podcast

How architecture and design influence the way we live, work, and invest.

Arcfluence - The Architecture and Design Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by ArcFluence, with 67 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

ArcFluence hosts Arcfluence - The Architecture and Design Podcast, a arts show with 67 episodes published.

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  Episode #67

  Architecture and Design in the Technological Revolution

  Sep 7, 202650 min

  Blake Gibbons, Chief Revenue Officer at RunDiffusion, joins Nick and Paul to explore generative visualization in architecture and design - from faster visual studies and client-generated imagery to matching an image’s polish with the design’s maturity. They discuss how firms can manage tools, costs, and governance without chasing every new product - and how architects translate visual preferences into buildable projects, with drawings and specifications recording accepted decisions. Check out the full story at Arcfluence.com.

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  Episode #66

  Design's First Responsibility: The People Who Live With It

  Aug 23, 202657 min

  In this episode of The Arcfluence Podcast, Bart Shaw, FAIA, principal and co-founder of Ibañez Shaw Architecture, joins the team for a conversation about what good design is ultimately responsible for. They discuss working within real budgets and constraints, considering the long-term cost of design decisions, coordinating architecture from concept through construction, and designing buildings around the people who will use, maintain and live with them for decades.

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  Episode #65

  The Columbus Housing Market Is Not One Market

  Aug 9, 202651 min

  Columbus continues to grow, and the headline numbers are good. The metro is adding people, it remains short on housing, and the median sale price has roughly doubled in a decade. Any one of those figures is a reasonable argument for putting money into central Ohio. None of them tell you what will happen on your parcel. That gap - between the number everyone quotes and the block you are actually buying on - is where money quietly gets lost. Not at the moment of purchase, and rarely dramatically. It shows up later, in a property that sits, in an exit priced against comparables that were never really comparable, in a pro forma built on an appreciation rate that applied to a region and not to a street. This is a guide to reading the market at the scale of the decision: what the citywide figures mean, what they conceal, and the questions that close the distance between the two. Much of what follows we worked through on the Arcfluence Podcast with Jim Ross, a licensed agent with Red 1 Realty who has spent more than eleven years working almost exclusively with investors. He pulls central Ohio market data weekly, and he is less interested in any single figure than in what the numbers say when read against each other.

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  Episode #63

  Designing the Room at the Center of a Home

  Jul 12, 202649 min

  The kitchen is rarely about the kitchen. It is the room a family actually lives in. Nick and Paul sit down with Tyler Swartzmiller and Amy Fix of Haus Studio, the Columbus design-build studio behind the cabinetry in Nick's own kitchen, for a warm, lively conversation about designing the room at the center of a home. They get into the 90/10 rule (design for the ninety percent of life that is just your family, not the ten percent that is entertaining), what a designer is actually doing in the first meeting, storage as programming rather than volume, why appliances are disappearing behind panels, the shift back toward natural stone and the worker-safety story driving it, and why "invest" beats "budget" when a home is the largest asset most people own. Guests: Tyler Swartzmiller, Principal Designer and Founder, and Amy Fix, Senior Designer, of Haus Studio. See their work at hausstudiodesigns.com or @hausstudiocolumbus. More conversations on design, building, and Central Ohio at arcfluence.com/podcast.

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  Episode #62

  The AIA Conference on Architecture & Design

  Jun 29, 202642 min

  Nick and Paul are back from the 2026 AIA National Conference in San Diego with a full debrief. They start with the keynotes that stood out: a celebrated culinary host on design as a curated experience, Charlene Li on winning with AI as a leadership and culture challenge rather than a magic button, and the World Bank's Sameh Wahba on designing for a changing climate - building for the next century, not just the next code cycle. From there they get into the Small Firm Exchange and what accessible technology means for smaller practices, the expo floor and an unexpected Columbus connection, and a Kent State alumni reception. Two building tours anchor the back half: Treehouse, a thoughtful multifamily project, and Snapdragon Stadium, a study in designing tiered experiences. They close on what they're taking home - embracing new tools, educating clients on resilience and long-term value, and the wide-open opportunity facing a profession that needs its next generation to step up.

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