Episode 197: The Knowledge Gap

Architecture is a long-game profession. It takes years to create a foundation of knowledge required to do our work. It begins in school and continues through your early career, and peaks after many years in the profession. As architects, we never stop learning, so it could be later in life when you feel the most confident about your abilities and knowledge as an Architect. So what happens to this experiential knowledge? What happens when we leave the building due to retirement? Does this get passed to the upcoming generations? Should it be? Does it even matter? Welcome to Episode 197: A Knowledge Gap? (question mark)

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Today’s topic was born out of our last conversation about retirement. As you might have imagined, that episode got me thinking about the end of a career and what that looks like and how it happens.

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