Basic Unchangeable Decisions
June 20, 2015
I look at the roads in Australia and think about BIM. It feels so simple and easy to declare that they are wrong and the majority of the world is right.
cartoons
Roommate Test of Manhood
May 28, 2015
Two projects from my time at school show how a strict adherence to digital or analog tools can lead to trouble. I learned a lesson and went with the tool that failed.
Speaking ArchiCAD, Speaking BIM and Miscommunication
December 1, 2014
Have you ever asked a question about ArchiCAD and gotten blank stares or silence from the experts? Maybe it was because your question didn’t make any sense.
It’s been a while since Google sold SketchUp to Trimble; who should be gloating?
July 9, 2014
Who won when Google sold SketchUp to Trimble? Or more importantly what does it mean that Google didn’t want SketchUp anymore?
Unconscious BIM and Ugly BIM
June 12, 2014
Some lessons from being too busy to write: remembering shortcuts by forgetting that I had forgotten them and suffering through the ugly BIM phase.
You graduated from Architecture School and want to be called Architect
May 5, 2014
Yes I’m going to talk about who gets to be called an architect, but unfortunately that’s just the symptom of a bigger issue.
Another Architecture website with images of architects sketching
February 13, 2014
What does an architect look like when working? Architecture websites with images of architects sketching paint a pretty clear (and misleading) picture.
Four Architects having Coffee
February 12, 2014
Cartoons and intros or titles that could be the start of a good joke. This is how I am writing blog posts now, I guess. I can live with that. I’ve had a lot of great meetings with local Seattle-based architects this week. Here’s what happened at one of those meetings.