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Far from the noise of the trade show floor at this springs annual AIA Conference and Expo-and light years from many of the professional meetings-an energetic group of architects gathered to both hear and participate in a panel discussion that was a hostile environment for status quo thinking.
Most of the questions from the floor at "Architecture as eBusiness: Profiting in the New Economy" were delivered PDA to PDA using wireless E-mail. Panel moderator James Cramer, Hon. AIA, of the Greenway Group, started off by announcing that "Change is changing!" New knowledge domains are redefining medicine and law, Cramer said, and architecture is being forced in the same direction. "Technology will annihilate traditional practices," he warned. "Some...