"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
a.k.a. How the Laws of Robotics Foretold the Logic of Large Language Models Introduction – The Machine That Dreamed in Logic Everyone is familiar with the Three Laws of Robotics.They’ve seeped into our cultural bloodstream: quoted in tech conferences, invoked in ethics debates, even recycled in AI...
"The ISO 8000 series provides frameworks for improving data quality for specific kinds of data. The series defines which characteristics of data are relevant to data quality, specifies requirements applicable to those characteristics, and provides guidelines for improving data quality." An overview of the series and...
The City Beneath the City There are cities that dazzle with their surfaces, and others that live in the mind. Milan belongs to the latter kind, to me. Beneath its layers of glass, asphalt, and the relentless functionality everybody likes to boast, there lies another city:...
1. Introduction — The Paradox of Standards The dream of a digital commons is as old as the internet itself: a space where information flows freely across boundaries, where collaboration scales beyond organisations, and where knowledge becomes a shared infrastructure rather than a private asset. In...
I think it's plain to see that there are very few things being actually developed within Autodesk, right now. Revit needs a total rewrite (and it's not happening), Navisworks is a zombie crawling from version to version and it hasn't been updated in decades, and...
Introduction Whenever the term 4D-BIM is invoked, it usually comes with a promise of efficiency. Time, we are told, is simply the “fourth dimension” attached to the model: a neat schedule linked to geometry, a Gantt chart embedded in 3D space. In this view, 4D-BIM is...
Confession: My Brain, Too Many Tabs I should start with a confession: when it comes to multitasking, the general new trend is that it doesn't work and it should be avoided, and I've always pushed back on this notion for a very concrete reason. This reason...
As my readers know by now, I often treat science fiction as a testing ground for architectural imagination. Not because it delivers ready-made templates for cities of the future, but because it probes the limits of what we think cities can be. Readers in architecture...
1. Introduction 1.1. Why the Word “Common” deserves Scrutiny Let’s get something out of the way: in the world of digital construction, “common” is a loaded word. It evokes a sense of unity, standardisation, and shared purpose. It conjures images of centralised vaults of truth — the...
You don’t read me writing about the masters of architecture much, and those who’ve known me for a while will remember how critical I am of some of their contributions to the built environment, but I’ve always been partial to Piero Portaluppi, possibly because he...
