Joshua Dawson MAAS

Indian-born and Los Angeles-based architect, designer, and filmmaker. He received a Master's in Advanced Architectural Studies from the University of Southern California, where he was the recipient of the S. Kenneth Johnson Memorial Scholarship and a Gesundheit traveling fellow.

PROBLEMS

“You want to be able to identify who your building is going to be, the community of building is going to be serving. You want to be able to identify what are the food desert, if there's a food desert that's available, where your basic... who your local authorities are that you're going to have to be checking with. If there's any bylaws and codes, et cetera. Now you have to go to every single individual, like disciplinary domain to get each of that information. But if there's an application that gave you all that data, like a nature place data so to speak, with a single application I think that would be kind of cool.”
“I don't think architecture is going to be particularly innovative. I think that since they work so much in the service capital, and since they're worried really about the practice as a whole, but I think that innovation and architecture is going to come out more from Silicon Valley than it is from any architecture company or AEC company. So I can totally see someone like Autodesk, right? Having the most impact on the industry and on the discipline.”
“I highly doubt that that the office space is going away…I think that office space will exist. It just won't exist in the same way that it always had, so it won't be called ‘office space,’ it would be called ‘workspace’ or probably go by a different term…but it's not going to be cubicles.”