Monthly archive December, 2012
Order AND Complexity
I’ve been thinking a lot about Order and Chaos… If you haven’t read the Slate article A Unified Theory of Muppet Types, find time to read it after you’re done with this post (or pause and read that before continuing). It was transformative for me. I am a Chaos Muppet married to an Order Muppet....
ArchiCAD 15 is #4 on Residential Design + Build’s Top 100 Product List
Over the past twelve months, the readers of Residential Design + Build magazine have asked its editors about products featured in the magazine. The most requested products are listed every December in the order of popularity. This year, ArchiCAD 15 was ranked 4th on the list (page 20). ArchiCAD 15 was GRAPHISOFT’s BIM software version...
Monson Charrette Part 2 – Diagrams You Can Walk Through
In my first post about the Monson Charrette, I talked about the general experience of the event; how ArchiCAD 16 and the BIM Server via Teamwork 2 acted as a giant collaboration machine for the large group of participants. I shared some examples from the event, but didn’t focus on the actual final product. That...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 16 / BIM Server / Cloud Computing / Collaboration / Trade Shows / Value of BIM
Crankhouse, by Hometta – Now in Cookie Form!
Remember that Gingerbread auction we told you about? The auction raised almost $1,800 to benefit the CRDC in Boston and many lucky bidders now have one-of-a-kind holiday sweets to decorate their table. One of those lucky bidders was our own National Marketing Director, Marianne Sims. Sims won the gingerbread house cleverly created by over,under. Based on an...
ArchiCAD with an Audience
Eco Build 2012 I have a new gimmick for showing people ArchiCAD. I was at EcoBuild 2012 the first week of December and I spent one afternoon hanging out at the GRAPHISOFT Booth. A group of architects came up and started asking about ArchiCAD. They were new to the world of BIM and had some...
Monson Charrette Part 1 – BIM Server and Collective Design
At the 2012 Architecture Boston Expo, GRAPHISOFT with the Community Design Resource Center of Boston (CDRC) and the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (WMAIA), held a design charrette to focus on ways to assist the town of Monson, MA in recovering from a local natural disaster. Since I was at ABX,...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 16 / BIM Server / Cloud Computing / Collaboration / Events / Trade Shows / Value of BIM
Farewell, Artful Architect
World renown and beloved architect, Oscar Niemeyer has died at the age of 104. The entire architectural community is mourning the loss. It would be impossible to overstate the impact Niemeyer had on architecture. Not only in his native Brazil, but in locations throughout the world, his iconic designs both inspire and capture the imagination. Niemeyer, who died...
Filed Under: Graphisoft
Boston Architects Bake Up Sweet Support for the CDRC
Gingerbread houses are synonymous with the holiday season – and this year the traditional cookie house sweetens the deal for a fundraising event. The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is hosting an auction of some sugary structures made of the gingery substance. Proceeds will benefit the Community Design Resource Center of Boston (CDRC). Local designers and architects – including...
Seville Cathedral Renovation
Juliette Walckenaer, a construction engineer from Spain, created a graphic representation showing the replacement of the Seville Cathedral pillars for her final project at the University of Seville. In the clip, you can hear in Ms. Walckenaer’s flawless Spanish (don’t worry, it has subtitles!) – how she considers ArchiCAD a perfect software to work on...
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