Craig Curtis | Courtesy Katerra
Enter Katerra, a 2,000-person company headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., that is applying a systems approach to design, manufacturing, and construction. Founded in 2015, Katerra—which bills itself as a tech company—has an estimated $1 billion in construction projects in the pipeline for next year.
In this episode, Craig Curtis, FAIA, president of Katerra Architecture, the company’s in-house design group, describes how Katerra is investing in mass-timber production and applying principles culled from mass production and manufacturing to streamline the building process. To help ensure that it creates high quality architecture, Katerra consults with its Design Consortium, a group of four leading architects who, until recently, were all external to the company.
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