I enter 2026 with two aims: protect the public purpose of architecture and raise the productive capacity of our industry. Both need institutional change and a sharper discipline about social, environmental and economic value.

In about 15-years cycles, technology rewrites the rules that govern productive output. The PCs, the web, and the cloud platforms each reshaped industry. 

Generative AI is the next platform shift, and early signs suggest that it could be bigger than the internet. The independent analyst Benedict Evans calls this “AI eats the world”; a cycle of bundling and unbundling, where incumbents absorb, start-ups disrupt, and workflows fracture before they settle.