"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."
Succede sempre, nelle prime ore di un workshop di modellazione informativa: uno studente che conosce bene Revit — famiglie, fasi, worksharing, tutto l'armamentario — si trova davanti al muro di unn edificio storico, storto in sezione, trapezoidale in pianta, e per un attimo non sa...
Last week, in a fit of despair, I published a piece that touched on a few questions around open formats and proprietary formats, specifically asking whether it was legitimate or advisable for a contracting authority to require the delivery of a model in proprietary format...
Last month, a discussion circulated on LinkedIn, sparked by an imaginary dialogue between a RUP — the person responsible for the procurement procedure in Italian public contracts, roughly equivalent to a project owner's representative — and a lawyer, published in an article on BIM and...
On unreasonable LOD requirements, dishonest tenders, and who really benefits A friend called me last week. BIM consultant, hands-on experience, knows what he's doing. The situation he described was nothing new to me, yet it hit the same way it always does. The call He's taking part in...
There is a question we often forget to ask, and it became the centrepiece of a three-hour workshop I delivered last week at Politecnico di Milano as part of a BIM Management master's programme. When an information model is delivered to the client,how do we know...
Last week, I was organising my thoughts around a lesson for a client, and the lesson was aimed at Project Managers, so it had a little bit on what does it mean to manage a BIM project and a little bit of practical insight on...
Paul Valéry rejected inspiration as miracle, seeing creativity as the discipline of thought in motion. This week, we parallel his notion of mental “operations” with computational procedures in design: iteration, optimisation, constraint, and recombination, and challenge the dichotomy between intuition and automation. Drawing on contemporary...
Some people asked me what I think of AI in the new Revit 2027. Other people asked me what I think of the entire Autodesk Cloud ecosystem being rebranded as Forma. More people requested I express an opinion on the lack of mention to agentic...
There’s a game I’d like to play (queue The Cranberries): take two EIRs from the last month, any project really, and delete project name and phase. Then place them in front of somebody else and ask them to guess. Which kind of project? Is it...
I know, I know, the new ISO is out and bla bla bla, but I gave you a week of mournful silence last week and, for now, let me quote you Nick Fury. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkGQkOAFoQ Some weeks ago, I wrote an article on “advanced BIM,” whatever that means,...
