Custom Residential Architects Network

Catherine, the final video has been corrected with regards to gender.  It was a demo to get funding, done quickly with room for improvement.  Please review it again http://www.youtube.com/user/CRANtv

I find your suggestion that we are mocking any individual group, African American, or women, or the confused white buffoon husband in the background as digesting. Our point was that when you make a mistake with your nest egg... one can feel powerless, lost, and in need of professional guidance.  That includes everyone, all of us.

The men are standing over the women, really? You could easily argue that the women were making the decisions  at the table and in the position of power.  The fact is that the picture was taken at Luis Jauregui's office(on our Advisory Group and past Chair) because we needed office pictures for the video. Clearly, you are looking for stereotypes that don't exist.  PROOF..Take a look at his team http://www.jaureguiarchitect.com/ourteam  and feel free to send him and apology. His firm is everything good about equality.  You just want to see what you want to see. Perhaps if we keep pointing this out, someday it will stop.

Hi Ed,

This is a work in process.  We appreciate all constructive criticism.  That is not to say we are going to change direction with every comment, but we are certainly listening and the comments truly are being discussed.  Even the few the ludicrous ones are discussed and some valid points cloaked in obnoxious vitriol. I wish all the criticism was presented politely like yours. Most is!  Things like gender neutrality, the tone of the voice, the types of the projects presented are all being considered. Some things might change lot, like the gender neutrality which we admit was a terrible oversight and we rewrote the pilot and reproduced it, and other like the types of projects presented in the imagery will be considered for future videos. 

The fact is that these are being made by and for AIA/CRAN and not for the AIA or the AIA Housing Knowledge Group. The uniqueness of our group is that we specialize in "custom" residential housing. To judge our videos by other standards is to judge whether we should exist as our own knowledge group.  For what it's worth, we are the newest of the knowledge groups, formed about five years ago, and we are already one of the handful of most active, most vibrant, most financially successful, and providing the most content to our members. So, while I admit that we need a better diversity in projects in size, they will likely remain custom designed. Other KCs can do other projects for their contingencies. 

I thought the video did great job of mentioning the amount of many areas of expertise that an architect must learn in college, the multiyear interning program, and the complexity of the laborious exam. I am not sure I agree that the video doesn't cover that well for a newbie.  Perhaps you could be more specific about that comment.

Some of our future videos will focus on the working drawings, process, picking the best architect, what is really green, etc. All recommendations are welcome for ideas.  You do have to recognize that these are all being done be us, volunteers, with the help of Doug Patt. We are not the AIA in DC with a staff to do complicated interviews and analysis. We have businesses and work for bosses like everyone on the board.  That not to say that we wouldn't welcome volunteers!

I do think your comment of value was addressed as an introductory concept to the video series with idea the embodied resale value in the nest egg analogy. 

Finally, it is our hope that these videos will spread virally as our series builds and search engines find us. Some of Doug's own videos have almost  a half a million hits.

Keeps the constructive criticism coming,

Fondly,

Dave

Hi Ed, This is a work in process.  We appreciate all constructive criticism.  That is not to say we are going to change direction with every comment, but we are certainly listening and the comments truly are being discussed.  Even the few the ludicrous ones are discussed and some valid points cloaked in obnoxious vitriol. I wish all the criticism was presented politely like yours. Most is!  Things like gender neutrality, the tone of the voice, the types of the projects presented are all being considered. Some things might change lot, like the gender neutrality which we admit was a terrible oversight and we rewrote the pilot and reproduced it, and other like the types of projects presented in the imagery will be considered for future videos. 

The fact is that these are being made by and for AIA/CRAN and not for the AIA or the AIA Housing Knowledge Group. The uniqueness of our group is that we specialize in "custom" residential housing. To judge our videos by other standards is to judge whether we should exist as our own knowledge group.  For what it's worth, we are the newest of the knowledge groups, formed about five years ago, and we are already one of the handful of most active, most vibrant, most financially successful, and providing the most content to our members. So, while I admit that we need a better diversity in projects in size, they will likely remain custom designed. Other KCs can do other projects for their contingencies.  I thought the video did great job of mentioning the amount of many areas of expertise that an architect must learn in college, the multiyear interning program, and the complexity of the laborious exam. I am not sure I agree that the video doesn't cover that well for a newbie.  Perhaps you could be more specific about that comment. Some of our future videos will focus on the working drawings, process, picking the best architect, what is really green, etc. All recommendations are welcome for ideas.  You do have to recognize that these are all being done be us, volunteers, with the help of Doug Patt. We are not the AIA in DC with a staff to do complicated interviews and analysis. We have businesses and work for bosses like everyone on the board.  That not to say that we wouldn't welcome volunteers!

I do think your comment of value was addressed as an introductory concept to the video series with idea the embodied resale value in the nest egg analogy. 

Finally, it is our hope that these videos will spread virally as our series builds and search engines find us. Some of Doug's own videos have almost  a half a million hits.

Keeps the constructive criticism coming,

Fondly,

Dave

Hi Ed,

This is a work in process.  We appreciate all constructive criticism.  That is not to say we are going to change direction with every comment, but we are certainly listening and the comments truly are being discussed.  Even the few the ludicrous ones are discussed and some valid points cloaked in obnoxious vitriol. I wish all the criticism was presented politely like yours. Most is!  Things like gender neutrality, the tone of the voice, the types of the projects presented are all being considered. Some things might change lot, like the gender neutrality which we admit was a terrible oversight and we rewrote the pilot and reproduced it, and other like the types of projects presented in the imagery will be considered for future videos. 

The fact is that these are being made by and for AIA/CRAN and not for the AIA or the AIA Housing Knowledge Group. The uniqueness of our group is that we specialize in "custom" residential housing. To judge our videos by other standards is to judge whether we should exist as our own knowledge group.  For what it's worth, we are the newest of the knowledge groups, formed about five years ago, and we are already one of the handful of most active, most vibrant, most financially successful, and providing the most content to our members. So, while I admit that we need a better diversity in projects in size, they will likely remain custom designed. Other KCs can do other projects for their contingencies. 

I thought the video did great job of mentioning the amount of many areas of expertise that an architect must learn in college, the multiyear interning program, and the complexity of the laborious exam. I am not sure I agree that the video doesn't cover that well for a newbie.  Perhaps you could be more specific about that comment.

Some of our future videos will focus on the working drawings, process, picking the best architect, what is really green, etc. All recommendations are welcome for ideas.  You do have to recognize that these are all being done be us, volunteers, with the help of Doug Patt. We are not the AIA in DC with a staff to do complicated interviews and analysis. We have businesses and work for bosses like everyone on the board.  That not to say that we wouldn't welcome volunteers!

I do think your comment of value was addressed as an introductory concept to the video series with idea the embodied resale value in the nest egg analogy. 

Finally, it is our hope that these videos will spread virally as our series builds and search engines find us. Some of Doug's own videos have almost  a half a million hits.

Keeps the constructive criticism coming,

Fondly,

Dave