New website in development
Utile is in the process of constructing a new website and blog. Our goal is to facilitate communication with clients, alliance partners and the design community. Our website, as much as our commissions, will be an important intellectual and creative outlet for the firm.
Let us know what you think.
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July 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
This is an incredibly refreshing body of work. The website’s straightforward and frank manner is equally refreshing. Congrats.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Looks good, Tim. Simple, clean, easy to navigate.
What more could an architect want?
July 18th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Looks great - congrats! Keep in touch if you need help in anyway!
July 19th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I really like the construction, function, and personality of the new website. It provides a more direct and personal connection to the day-to-day work of the firm. It’s kind of a brave approach to image/ identity/ brand.
I don’t even miss the rotating logo and techno-house loop soundtrack. That’s what so many architects seem to want with their sites.
Keep up the good work. I’ll continue to look for it.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
nice site concept. one sugg (i’m sure it’s coming soon…) add some keywords/tags/categories to the projects section to help sort through and identify all the work
August 5th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Great idea! You’ve given me a reason to keep coming back to your site.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
How do you think about how to incorporate the fourth dimension — time — into your design process and your architecture? After all, most of the buildings that you design will outlast you, your clients and their builders, not to mention their current programmatic, technological and regulatory environments.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 pm
The blog idea is interesting. I am in discussion with a co-worker about setting up an internal blog to our firm’s intranet. I haven’t really engaged blogs too much, this is almost my first time. I know you are a relativly small firm, is there any internal use of this or does that not make sense for a firm your size. Is this purly an external blog. I havent read too many entries yet, but I don’t see as much back and forth banter as other blogs. Will you answer these questions or will this go unchecked? I am curious and appreciate this forum you have provided…
August 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
We didn’t set up our website/blog for discourse internal to our firm. Since we are a firm of 22 people and 16 of us sit around one large table, conversation of all kinds, both high and low, is already part of the office culture. I can see the value of an internal blog for larger firms. I worked for SOM from 1984 until 1989 (with time off for graduate school); an internal blog within that environment would have been excellent way to communicate with hundreds of other 20-something architect-interns (if blogs had existed back then).
Utile decided to use a blog format to make our website more flexible and easy to update by anyone in the office. We had also grown tired of the flashy intro of most architecture firms; fine for a restaurant (to communicate ambience and the relative hipness factor) but not so relevant to our practice (or any other).
Only time will tell if our website will evolve into a legitimate blog; it depends on the participation of people in our practice and the level of interest out there.