"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."
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,...
Last week I tried to map the current ISO 19650-1:2018 with the concepts as they're now laid out in the DIS/ISO 19650-1:2026, in public consultation until June 2nd. I hope if was helpful to all those who were feeling lost, but the changes aren't the...
Well, the new draft of the ISO 19650 has been out for public consultation for a week, now, and I have the feeling nobody's actually consulting the thing, because the heat of the debate has been around the "disappearance of BIM". I already wrote about...
“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...
