2013

Ten Years Later, summer internships aren’t what they once were

March 6, 2013

I’ve seen into the Chasm. It’s beautiful, ambitious, and not the architectural graduates of times past. Back in January I had coffee with two students from the University of Minnesota that I’m mentoring. I asked them a question, “do you have any classmates who still say ‘I can’t wait to graduate and start designing buildings!’?” The answers: “We’re not allowed to be that optimistic” and “There are people who say

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Get on the Collaboration Bus. Or Quit. I don’t care which.

March 6, 2013

 The Generation Y Architect In February 2012, during a session at the AIA Minnesota Leadership Forum, I discovered that I am a stereotype. Painfully so. I am Generation Y. In a room with fifteen Generation X architects, I was the oddball. It happened again when I was at the AIA Minnesota Board Retreat eight months later. It was a room of fifty architects. We had to order a list of

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Someone’s comparing ArchiCAD to Revit and you should pay attention

March 5, 2013

Why should you be paying attention? Because of the WHO doing the comparing.  Scott Mackenzie, BIM Manager at Stantec, is doing his own head-to-head comparison based on his extensive personal experience. The first post definitely reads as if it’s being written more for himself than for us. Which is awesome and very interesting. I hope he keeps it up and ignores any comments that disagree with his assessment. There’ll be time

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I was going to write a post about LOD

March 5, 2013

Level of Development or Level of Detail (depending on how you define LOD) is a super fascinating concept. And ultra-critical to functioning intelligently in BIM. It’s not a be-all, end-all answer to success in BIM, but an awareness of the development and certainty of the information in BIM greatly benefits communication. And Communication is at the heart of good collaboration (foreshadowing). Instead of me writing more tonight, I’ll stop and

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Think you can’t construct with ArchiCAD? Meet Mota-Engil

March 4, 2013

This looks like a really interesting webinar. Regardless of what BIM authoring tool you use, it’s always very interesting (and enlightening) to see how contractors are employing BIM. It just so happens that this construction firm, after searching long and hard, ended up choosing ArchiCAD. I’m looking forward to seeing how and why. This construction-specific online seminar will highlight how implementing BIM leads to numerous benefits for construction companies, including:

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Minnesota ArchiCAD User Group Meeting (DATE CHANGE to April 2nd, 2013)

March 4, 2013

A few short weeks until MNAUG #19! Date: Tuesday April 2nd, 2013 | 6:30PM — 8:30 PM | (NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!) Location: Nelson-Tremain Partnership 125 Southeast Main Street, Suite 245 Minneapolis, MN  55414 Details: Technically it’ll be Spring when this meeting occurs, so let’s celebrate surviving another Minnesota Winter with friends, colleagues, and ArchiCAD. And maybe a few beers after the meeting… Notice that we’re meeting in a new location.

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ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #3 re-released

March 4, 2013

Suffering through ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #3? Stuck on Hotfix #2 and eagerly waiting to start exploring EcoDesigner STAR Beta? <WAIT OVER> ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix-3 package (build 3487) was released just a few moments ago. You can read about all the details and download the hotfix (if your ArchiCAD isn’t set to automatically notify you) here. It looks like there’s a bunch of IFC export/import improvements as well as a bunch

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A tale of Three (Capital A) Architects

March 1, 2013

Yesterday I wrote this other post. You might want to read it first. But you don’t need to. In fact your ignorance of that discussion (amazing comments by the way), might help answer the riddle below. A tale of Three (Capital A) Architects Three Architects are walking down a road. They have just been asked by the Wealthiest Man in the Land to design the Greatest Building Ever. Each is

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Maybe Someday I’ll actually Design a Building and see it Built

February 28, 2013

That’s what Architects are supposed to do, right? There’s a big series of posts coming about this topic, but I wanted to foreshadow a bit and ask a question. If you were to give a two word description of the following architect, what would it be: The architect who loves the act of designing through the media of our trade-whether pencil on trace, scale models, or digitally. After being asked

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