Smart Geometry 2011. Copenhagen, Denmark, 28th March – 2nd April 2011- Review

The Smart Geometry (SG) is the biggest conference about parametric design and the latest developments in computational design worldwide. Since 2001 architects, engineers and programmers meet once a year in a different part of the world to practice, discuss and exchange the latest developments in the field of computational design. This year’s conference was hosted by CITA in Copenhagen, the Danish hub for computational design...

15th of April 2011

Smart Geometry 2011 – Building the Invisible – First Impression

Our GC specialist David Kosdruy gets a first impression of the workshop clusters at Smart Geometry 2011, Copenhagen.

1st of April 2011

What price bim?

A literal and philosophical question raised on a recent trip to Scandinavia to participate in a new, shortlisted, design competition. The organisers demand that the competition submission should be a bim model. With the headlong rush into bim in the UK and the Scandinavian model being cited as a proactive example is it time to stop and reflect on what this means?

by BD Magazine, 11th of February 2011

The Ten Stages Of BIM Adoption

BIM adoption is a slow, gradual process, which breaks down into a number of distinct phases. Every company goes through them to a degree. Which stage has your BIM adoption reached? Expect to spot yourself somewhere in Nigel's irreverent end of year Soapbox...

26th of November 2010

BIM from 30 Thousand Feet

As nothing more than a seasoned but provincial Building Modeler, can I really have a bird's-eye view of Building Information Modeling? If I have no direct connection to a university, research institution, or major corporation, have no advanced degree, am not widely traveled, and sit on no Boards of Directors, how can I have such a broad view of such a complex set of issues? I cannot. My main reason for writing here is that there is reason to believe that no one really has that kind of view of this global revolution in design methods. Why not?

by AECbytes, 1st of October 2010

Instant Gratification

Summer is over, and as schools re-open, Nigel looks at the way expectations of learning have changed with the Facebook generation...

1st of September 2010

Architecture is Dead

Nigel revisits his childhood days and asks if architecture is as self-destructive as punk...

2nd of August 2010

Invictus

A soapbox and the Movie of the Month in one, this month...

2nd of July 2010

RE: Editorial June 2010

9th of June 2010

The Tide Is In

Nigel returns from Oz with this slightly belated soapbox for May. Continuing Karen's editorial theme on the aspects of culture in the workplace, Nigel suggests the important factor is the person - positive or negative, willing to make an effort or only make a fuss...

21st of May 2010