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Arcfluence - The Architecture and Design Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 66

How architecture and design influence the way we live, work, and invest.

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Design's First Responsibility: The People Who Live With It

Episode 66

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 56:46

In this episode of The Arcfluence Podcast, Bart Shaw, FAIA, principal and co-founder of Ibañez Shaw Architecture, joins the team for a conversation about what good design is ultimately responsible for. They discuss working within real budgets and constraints, considering the long-term cost of design decisions, coordinating architecture from concept through construction, and designing buildings around the people who will use, maintain and live with them for decades.

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The Columbus Housing Market Is Not One Market

Episode 65

Sunday, August 9, 2026 • Duration 50:34

Columbus continues to grow, and the headline numbers are good. The metro is adding people, it remains short on housing, and the median sale price has roughly doubled in a decade. Any one of those figures is a reasonable argument for putting money into central Ohio.

None of them tell you what will happen on your parcel.

That gap - between the number everyone quotes and the block you are actually buying on - is where money quietly gets lost. Not at the moment of purchase, and rarely dramatically. It shows up later, in a property that sits, in an exit priced against comparables that were never really comparable, in a pro forma built on an appreciation rate that applied to a region and not to a street.

This is a guide to reading the market at the scale of the decision: what the citywide figures mean, what they conceal, and the questions that close the distance between the two.

Much of what follows we worked through on the Arcfluence Podcast with Jim Ross, a licensed agent with Red 1 Realty who has spent more than eleven years working almost exclusively with investors. He pulls central Ohio market data weekly, and he is less interested in any single figure than in what the numbers say when read against each other.

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The Design Intent Gap: What Specifications Protect

Episode 64

Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 54:05

Designing the Room at the Center of a Home

Episode 63

Monday, July 13, 2026 • Duration 49:23

The kitchen is rarely about the kitchen. It is the room a family actually lives in. Nick and Paul sit down with Tyler Swartzmiller and Amy Fix of Haus Studio, the Columbus design-build studio behind the cabinetry in Nick's own kitchen, for a warm, lively conversation about designing the room at the center of a home.

They get into the 90/10 rule (design for the ninety percent of life that is just your family, not the ten percent that is entertaining), what a designer is actually doing in the first meeting, storage as programming rather than volume, why appliances are disappearing behind panels, the shift back toward natural stone and the worker-safety story driving it, and why "invest" beats "budget" when a home is the largest asset most people own.

Guests: Tyler Swartzmiller, Principal Designer and Founder, and Amy Fix, Senior Designer, of Haus Studio. See their work at hausstudiodesigns.com or @hausstudiocolumbus.

More conversations on design, building, and Central Ohio at arcfluence.com/podcast.

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The AIA Conference on Architecture & Design

Episode 62

Monday, June 29, 2026 • Duration 41:43

Nick and Paul are back from the 2026 AIA National Conference in San Diego with a full debrief. They start with the keynotes that stood out: a celebrated culinary host on design as a curated experience, Charlene Li on winning with AI as a leadership and culture challenge rather than a magic button, and the World Bank's Sameh Wahba on designing for a changing climate - building for the next century, not just the next code cycle. From there they get into the Small Firm Exchange and what accessible technology means for smaller practices, the expo floor and an unexpected Columbus connection, and a Kent State alumni reception. Two building tours anchor the back half: Treehouse, a thoughtful multifamily project, and Snapdragon Stadium, a study in designing tiered experiences. They close on what they're taking home - embracing new tools, educating clients on resilience and long-term value, and the wide-open opportunity facing a profession that needs its next generation to step up.

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Charlene Li on AI, Architecture, and the Future of Work

Episode 61

Monday, June 15, 2026 • Duration 52:52

Charlene Li is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and strategist who has spent decades helping leaders navigate disruptive technology and organizational change. In this episode, the Arcfluence Team sits down with Charlene for a grounded conversation about AI, architecture, and what it takes for firms to adapt with clarity instead of fear.

Charlene frames AI not as a magic solution or a replacement for human expertise, but as a leadership, culture, and decision-making challenge. The conversation explores how architecture and design firms can use AI to reduce friction, improve client communication, rethink workflows, support talent development, and create new value in the earliest stages of a project.

Rather than chasing every new tool, Charlene argues that firms should start with the problems they need to solve, build AI fluency across their teams, and create governance that helps people move faster without losing control. The result is a practical discussion about experimentation, judgment, adaptability, and the human expertise that still sits at the center of good design.

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Central Ohio, Block by Block

Episode 60

Monday, June 1, 2026 • Duration 01:06:44

Central Ohio reads as a single metro on a map. On the ground it doesn’t behave like one. German Village and Dublin are fifteen miles apart and may as well be different states for how buyers think about them. Grandview is its own city. So is Bexley. So is Upper Arlington. Worthington was founded by New Englanders and still feels like Vermont. Powell has two distinct halves separated by a few minutes’ drive. Short North used to be downtown and now insists it’s its own neighborhood.

For this episode we asked Isabelle Trepkoski - Columbus native, agent with Styer Real Estate Professionals, and someone who’s lived in a meaningful share of these neighborhoods herself - to walk through them with us, one at a time. What follows is what you actually need to know.

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The Studio Ahead

Episode 59

Sunday, May 17, 2026 • Duration 42:23

Seventy episodes in, the hosts step out of the host seats. Danny Porter from behind the scenes dives in with Nick Karakaian and Paul Fatkins about how Arcfluence was built, where new technologies fit in a working architecture practice, what the next stretch of the firm looks like, and the studio they're about to move into.

Conversations along the way: why podcasts work in 2026, what Bill Griffith and Brunelleschi can still teach an architect, Nick's frame of designing around himself in real time, Paul's twenty-year vantage on the change in the tools and what they actually give you (time), Danny's frame of AI as a cartographer rather than an oracle, the complementary strengths that make the team work, and the question Danny puts to both founders at the close: what would you tell a twenty-year-old considering this field in 2026?

Hear more at arcfluence.com/podcast.

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Thirty Years of Building in Columbus with Kathy Binner

Episode 58

Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 41:50

In this episode of The Arcfluence Podcast, Nick and Paul sit down with Kathy Binner, founder of Kathy Binner International Academy, to trace three decades of building in Columbus - from salon ownership and commercial real estate to education, authorship, mentorship, and community leadership.

Kathy shares how buying her first building forced her to learn the realities of change-of-use, life-safety requirements, and the discipline behind commercial ownership. The conversation also explores her transition from operator to educator, her work with Happy House Hunters and now the Central Ohio Investor Network (COIN), the creation of the Stephanie Milo Jenkins Initiative, and the philosophy that has guided her career: treat the work in front of you like your name is already on the door.

This is a conversation about entrepreneurship as posture, real estate as education, and the quiet, long-term work of helping shape a city from inside its rooms.

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Columbus' Zoning and Entitlement Process

Episode 57

Monday, April 20, 2026 • Duration 54:44

Omar ElhagMusa, Executive Vice President at Spring Garden Lending, joins the Arcfluence Podcast to discuss Columbus’s first zoning rewrite in seventy years—Zone In Phase 1. He serves on the City’s Zoning Advisory Committee and brings a background spanning lending, policy, and small-scale residential investment.

The conversation focuses on how the new code actually functions: corridor-based upzoning tied to bus rapid transit, the removal of parking minimums, and the constraints created by Columbus’s predominantly R-1 zoning. It also covers single-stair construction, the impact of entitlement risk on project feasibility, and the role of by-right development in reducing pre-development uncertainty.

The episode closes on small-scale density—particularly duplexes—and the interdependence between transit and land use. Omar’s perspective reflects the overlap between financing, policy, and design, and how those systems shape what ultimately gets built.

Podcast for entertainment purposes only. Not financial advice.

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