I was on Twitter earlier in the week and noticed that AIA National is looking for architect bloggers to write about “architect as leader”, to help expand on the AIA 2013 National Convention theme of Building Leaders. So… what does Architect as Leader mean? The First Rule of Architecture School …
The recent announcement of Google killing Google Reader has me thinking about dead software, over specialization, and the dependence on software companies. My readers who use Autodesk products might feel a little uncomfortable for a moment… are you too dependent on the whims of a mega-corporation that is clearly less …
If you have six minutes, please do yourself a favor and watch this video. But instead of thinking about video games, think about BIM adoption in firms. Specifically think about people learning ArchiCAD, Revit, or one of the other BIM authoring tools out there. Here’s the best analogy from the …
Okay so perhaps if you’re 100% going to retire in the next few years this doesn’t apply to you. But if you plan on working for sometime yet, you need to get with the latest technology, you need to accept that our profession involves and REQUIRES a mastery of technology. …
I talk with a lot of architects, interns, and people who studied architecture but went in different and/or non-traditional directions. There is a particular type of architect that comes up again and again in these conversations. A prototypical architect that we all seem to measure ourselves against: the Natural Architect. …
This is the third part in a series about demystifying BIM. The first post Why you failed at BIM (you were impatient) looked at the struggles with BIM adoption. The second post There are Four BIM Flavors clarified the term BIM by looking at two major factors: BIG/little and social/lonely. …
After the successful Ceiling Editor and Floating Dimension objects the next BIM component has arrived in the “Wish upon an Object from BIMcomponents.com”. The Random City component is a very useful tool when you want to place schematic buildings or town parts simply and quickly into the background of an …
MALMÖ, SWEDEN, June 18, 2013 — BIMobject® announced today that the cloud integration App for GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has been launched. The App is completely free of charge for all users of ArchiCAD worldwide, giving the ArchiCAD user a toolset to find, …
So this is my month of travel. I’ve so far driven from Minnesota through South Dakota to Wyoming. I’m now in southern Colorado; tomorrow night my wife, kids, and I will sleep somewhere in the northeast corner of New Mexico. After that we have a week or so in Texas …
Reinventing the Wheel Let’s face it. We love it. We reinvent every chance we get hoping to make things better. Without it our lives would be pretty boring, Does this mean however we need to re-invent everything? More specifically, do we need to reinvent our interaction with ArchiCAD for every …
BUDAPEST, June 11, 2013 – GRAPHISOFT®, the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for architects, announced today that ArchiCAD® 17’s global rollout process has begun. Shipping starts with the International, US, and German versions – the first three of 26 local versions that, according to a busy release …
Daniel Dusoswa shared this on Facebook, but I’m reposting it here, with links. This is an amazing group, doing amazing events, and they have a knack for selecting insanely amazing locations. Seriously who doesn’t want to go to Cardiff in September 2013 for the ArchiCAD Summer School!? We are pleased …
Jared’s Note: Shivang originally wrote this with his ArchiCAD students in India in mind. The issues are universal so I thought about shortening the title to just “Top 9 BIM Myths”, but I really like that the original title highlights that we’re all facing the same BIM implementation challenges all …
So this is big news. Lots to read. I was too busy with my impending move to get this out the day everyone else was freaking out about SketchUp Pro 2013. But that’s okay, news like this deserves to be mulled over. And I think it’s going to take a …