Category Archives: education
27 Reasons to read Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 now, before it comes out
What are you doing on August 2, 2010? That’s the day* Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 – or MARA2011 for short – written by the authorial triumvirate of Eddy Krygiel, Phil Read and the inestimable James Vandezande comes out. I … Continue reading
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Fixing our Gaze on BIM and Integrated Design
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that’s the end. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects … Continue reading
BiM: Building intuition Modeling
While the architectural design process is largely an intuitive exploration, what happens to intuition in this rational, digital process we call BIM? Most everyone in the AEC industry by now knows that the purpose of a building information model (BIM) … Continue reading
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BIM (in) The Game
The Game is the name given to the annual football game played between Harvard and Yale. The two teams have met 126 times in the past 135 years, and while Yale has a slight edge (in) the series, Harvard is … Continue reading
Confessions of a NYC-RUG rat
Meetings – like building projects – that start well usually end well. Last night I had the opportunity to sit in on the New York City – Revit Users Group meeting. And boy am I glad that I did. You … Continue reading
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BIM’s Evolving Double Standard of Care
Holly Hunter: You totally crossed the line with that piece…. William Hurt: It’s hard not to cross the line when they keep moving the little sucker, don’t they!? Broadcast News, 1987 Here’s a conversation I overheard the other day between … Continue reading
Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tips and Tricks?
There are two approaches you can take to BIM at mid-career. 1. You can play the role of experienced architect and – in the classic architect/apprentice fashion – sit beside the agile BIM operator reciprocally feeding your building technology input … Continue reading
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BIM and Integrated Design’s 17 Most Pressing Issues for the Decade
“The most fruitful and natural exercise of our mind, in my opinion, is discussion. I find it sweeter than any other action of our life.” — Montaigne Before we can all work cooperatively and compatibly, sharing information and models, working … Continue reading
All I Really Need to Know about BIM and IPD I Learned in Kindergarten
“The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time—is he who shall create poems in stone.” Kindergarten Chats on … Continue reading
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