The future of buildings is low-tech and dumb
Good Star Wars movies give clues on how to design buildings to last for centuries.
A brief history of living rooms and their televisions
Finding the best location for a TV in my own house is a good excuse to talk about the history of living rooms-and the evolution of home entertainment.
Why your Building Project Might Fail in 2016
BIMQ CEO Christian Ehl shares his thoughts on the data-driven building and why the construction industry needs to reinvent itself in 2016.
To be a better Architect, learn how to talk to computers
Not so long ago if you tried to talk to computers, people laughed at you. Now if you aren't teaching yourself that skill, it might be too late to catch up.
Architects Are Irrelevant, So You Better Hire An Architect
The architect is the great generalist of the project team. The architect knows a good deal about every other discipline on the team.
Become an ArchiCAD 19 Beta Tester
ArchiCAD 19. It just feels good to write that. Are you excited about what's next? Do more than just dream about the next version. Apply to be a beta tester.
21st Century Residential Architecture Business Models
The latest edition of the AIA CRAN Chronicle has just been released. The theme of this issue is architectural business models for residential practices.
Takenaka Adopts GRAPHISOFT BIMx for Mobile Access to BIM Projects
Takenaka Corporation will adopt BIMx to make the award-winning BIM project presentation app available to thousands of field technicians, further ensuring on-site construction quality and management efficiency. THOUSANDS of field technicians. THOUSANDS!?!?!?!
Support AIA San Francisco’s vision for the future of the AIA
What do you think the future of the AIA should be? Renaming it The American Institute of Architecture and Design sounds like a good start.
3D Printing Buildings: Fire Up the Constructorbots
3D Printing Buildings is quickly becoming a reality. Guest blogger Crawford Smith looks at three current trendsetters.
It’s been a while since Google sold SketchUp to Trimble; who should be gloating?
Who won when Google sold SketchUp to Trimble? Or more importantly what does it mean that Google didn't want SketchUp anymore?
In Need of an Update
Quick! What year was this photo taken in? 2014? 1974? 1944? Our construction sites, on a macro scale, are due for a big overhaul, don't you agree?
The convergence of 25,000 years of Art History leads to BIM
I love creating diagrams. But this BIM Diagram is by far my favorite. It probably should become my new logo. Find out why it took 25,000 years to make.
Analog – Digital – Organic
The organic future will not be what Hollywood has been telling you. Nor will it be like what most architects assume. This is a good thing. Here's my article from the SCI-FI issue of CLOG that explains why.
How the Conscious Home Can Make You a Better Parent
In this follow up to my article from mid-January, Eliot from SmartThings shares how the Conscious Home can really make you a better parent today.
The Conscious Home could make me a better Parent
This week I read about the SmartThings Hub and also about Google buying Nest. It made me think about how these technologies could make me a better parent and architect.
Guest Blogger Alicia Liebel Berg: What Emerging Architects are about to inherit
Has anyone noticed that obtaining the title of ‘Architect' is not evaluated on the merit's of one's design, but how mathematically they grade within a set of standardized parameters?
Blacksmith, Telephone Operator, Architect
I want to see a chart tracking Blacksmiths per Capita over the last 150 years. And for telephone operators. And then one for Architects extending to 2050.
Neither Mies nor Corb used BIM
We have powerful digital tools. But neither Ludwig Mies van der Rohe nor Le Corbusier needed them to be famous. Shouldn't you just follow their lead?
Future of Architecture and the Built Environment – LinkedIn Group
I started a LinkedIn group. It has a grandiose title: Future of Architecture and the Built Environment. You can join the group by clicking here. Why did I start a LinkedIn group when there are already a million billion groups
From Film to Digital Cameras & a Free Copy of OrthoGraph Architect 3D v7
I talk a lot about the future of practicing architecture. I'm really interested in how our tools and processes evolve. I am curious about what common frustrations we will soon no longer need to deal with. A lot of these
World’s First 3D Ancient City Tour Comes to Life in Bergama
BERGAMA, TURKEY, July 18, 2013 — Bilkom has launched a project called “History comes to life in 3D” using 3D modeling software and mobile technology from GRAPHISOFT and Abvent. As a result, the ancient city in Bergama can be explored
How BIM connects with your client’s clients: a Tour of an Exhibition via BIMx.
Today on Facebook, I saw a link to a 3D tour of an Exhibition at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden. Carl Larsson — Friends & Enemies (update: the above BIMx file is no longer available online, but here's another by Joakim Werning) Grab
Guest Blogger Shivang Rajvir: 3 Responses to Technology
The days and nights we used to spend creating drawings by hand during the early days of college are still fresh in my mind. It was then that this question first hit my mind hard, and it is still with
Inspire a Shared Vision: Architect as Leader
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