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Earlier this year, I agreed to present a lecture for AIA Fort Worth as part of their Design Talk series. What will hopefully make this presentation interesting is that the lecture is open to the general public so the audience will be made up of architects AND non-architects.Apparently, that’s how I classify people …Architects and Non-Architects.Who doesn’t like to talk about design" Okay, probably most people but if you are reading this website, you at least have some level of interest in the topic. If you are in the neighborhood this coming Thursday, you should come by and check it out … it’s free, and I can promise you that it’ll be the cost of admission. Here’a description of the my “design talk” with the venue particulars.I will confess that these sorts of presentations are always a bit tricky. If the audience was all architects, it would be easy. If it were all non-architects, also easy. A mixture of both" Oooo – that’s where things can go sideways on you. If I make things too specific to architects, the non-architects could get lost or be disinterested. If I go the other way, there might not be enough meat on the bone to make the lecture worthwhile for the architects. The way I think the best way to deal w...