David Supple is the CEO of nedc in Boston, Architects who Build and Lift Spirits with Spaces. He is a Tufts graduate. He is an author and humanitarian on a mission to unite those who create the built environment.

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Classical Architecture’s African Roots – Everything You Were Taught About the Origins of Classical Architecture… IS. A. LIE. Get David’s book for FREE!

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1) The divisiveness and polarization that we are left with today is really from misinformation.

2) Dig in and uncover until you have a satisfactory answer.

3) These gentlemen who changed the history books to make it appear that the architect and the builder were separated throughout time to raise their social status – because it benefited them – also changed the history books to deny African’s legacy of classical architecture because it did not suit their ends.

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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: The True Meaning of an Architect

[1:33] – David shares something that he believes about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

In success, you want to be successful, but the achievement of that is gained through helping people.

[2:37] – The true meaning of an architect.

The word architect, if you go back to its derivation, goes back to antiquity into ancient Greek times, and it means master builder.
You would become an architect by going up through the trades. Once you are a master, you can turn around and design and direct work.

[4:04] – Why hasn’t the true meaning lived up to what an architect is today?

In the English Dictionary, if you look up architect and builder, they are synonyms.
The education of an architect switched from an apprenticeship system to a university curriculum.
Architects and builders have been made to appear like they’ve always been separated.

[7:11] – Does this changing of the guard matter?

You have AI that started to design, and as technology advances the integration, where did the design stop? At what click of the button did the design stop and the construction start?
The experience throughout the process is completely different when you have the integration of the architect and builder.

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[12:44] – Uniting individuals who are creating the “Built Environment.”

If you are going to school, say for construction management, you’ll be in the same school as those going to school for architecture or engineering, but there’s no integration.
The built environment is based on these different professionals working together to serve the client.
We are grooming in this adversarial-ness and this segregated setup. That is what’s being taught, and then we wonder why it’s like that in the industry.
Before the 1800s, the Greeks and the Romans got it from Africa and from Egypt.
These gentlemen who changed the history books to make it appear that the architect and the builder were separated throughout time to raise their social status – because it benefited them – also changed the history books to deny African’s legacy of classical architecture because it did not suit their ends.

[16:56] – Bucking the status quo.

Design build is becoming very popular now. It’s almost like a catch phrase that you need to watch out for, like looking at the firm and what they’re composed of.

[18:43] – The lesson David wants listeners to walk away with.

There was something in his industry that didn’t make sense. He questioned it instead of just accepting it. He pulled the string and got to a place where he kept pulling until he got to the bottom of it.
Dig in and uncover until you have a satisfactory answer.

[20:02] – David talks about his book.

He was very much interested in this separation of the architect and builder and documenting that.
The book is really, first and foremost, a picture book; he was putting it out for free as a flip book online.
There is this reintegration of our industry for the benefit of the world.

[22:28] – David talks about reintegration.

Providing a foundation where everybody starts with the fundamentals that are needed, then progresses into specialties – whether that be design or the construction side.
Africa was thought of as impoverished people in poor settings. In reality, that civilization is responsible for the Western advancements and achievements.
The divisiveness and polarization that we are left with today stems from that misinformation.

[25:39] – David’s key takeaway and call to action.

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[28:11] – Thank you to our Sponsors!

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