Tracy Alloway

Why hasn't construction, I guess, developed as much as a lot of other industries technologically?

He's been on this podcast many times.

They actually build it.

I'm sure this question will not be unexpected for you, but what happens to architects in the age of AI?

Because you could mount a very clear argument that if we have new technology that's able to do pretty much everything, including potentially modeling and designing buildings to very specific specs and needs, that that will mean that architects are perhaps even less well remunerated than they are now.

All right, Norman Foster, thank you so much for coming on OddLots.

Really enjoyed it.

Joe, that was a fascinating discussion.

I feel like I have a new appreciation of architecture.

Not that I didn't appreciate buildings before.

Maybe I should say I feel inspired to start knocking down walls in my own house.

By Norman Foster.

No.

That's right.

Yeah.

What a reference.

We'll have to tell Dan about that.

Yeah.

Well, the other thing I was thinking, going back to the interview we did with Allentown Mayor Matt Turk, was this idea of small-scale manufacturing.

I don't think he used this specific term dignity at work, but this idea of, you know, making things and then making the job of making things desirable by allowing people to like be close to where they're working and things like that.