"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."
“Advanced BIM”: what does that even mean? “Advanced BIM” is one of those expressions that sound authoritative and yet, when you ask what it actually describes, the answers become very vague very quickly. The statement doesn't mean anything, and it drives me crazy equally quickly. In...
Byung-Chul Han is a contemporary German philosopher born in Korea whose work explores the transformation of subjectivity, power, and social relations in late modern and digital societies. In the Swarm fits within this broader inquiry, focusing specifically on the effects of digital communication on perception,...
1. Prologue: The Add-On Debate (or, a False Choice) 1.1 “Use an Add-On” vs “Everyone Should Code” There are two stock answers that reliably surface whenever automation in BIM is mentioned: you should learn to code, you're nobody if you don't; you're being stupid: just use an add-on. The second...
Last month, I wrote a couple of things aimed at my local market, specifically on the updated norms on BIM for an Exchange Information Requirements and what should be specified inside. In one of those, I mentioned a principle in passing: that the as-built model...
Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989) was a French philosopher renowned for his work on philosophy of technology. He developed an ontology focusing on the processes of individuation, addressing how individuals emerge and transform through communication, and contributed significantly to information theory. This week we try to take...
Last week I wrote a litle thing on how a naming convention can help: people finding stuff; people using stuff at the appropriate Level of Development; people revising such stuff, and recognising its Level of Development at a glance. The decision tree of this process was summarised as follows: It's...
Domanda legittima. Dato che settimana scorsa ho scritto due righe a proposito dei riferimenti normativi obsoleti, qualcuno ha pensato che potesse essere una buona idea mandarmi il suo capitolato informativo per sapere se fosse ben fatto oppure no. A prescindere dal fatto che un lavoro...
How to Craft Names That Keep Humans Sane Whenever I draft a new standard for a company that's transitioning to BIM, I start from the naming convention of files and objects, because if you can't name things, you can't find them, and most certainly you can't...
1. The Taste of Water In Dune, Frank Herbert imagined a desert planet called Arrakis, a world so arid that water itself becomes sacred. On its burning sands, the nomadic Fremen survive by recovering every possible drop of moisture from their bodies, air, and even the...
