Archive for June, 2008

Autodesk Acquires Ecotect!

Posted on June 27, 2008. Filed under: Architecture, Design, Ecotect, Software | Tags: Andrew Marsh, Autodesk, Building-performance-analysis, Design, Ecotect, Green building studio, Simulation |

Ecotect is now Autodesk® Ecotect®. It came to me as a big shock, as I never expected this to happen. But if you had been an active member on ecotect community, you should have already smelled something cooking. First Andrew took almost 18 months to release version 5.6. Immediately after its release (after 24 hours [...]

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BIM in Architecture Education

Posted on June 25, 2008. Filed under: ArchiCAD, Architecture, Design, Education, Software, exercise, ideas, sketchbook, students | Tags: architects, architectural design, Architecture, Building information modeling, drawings, Education, faculty, graphics, history of architecture, model, presentation, Software, students, sun-study, sustainability, syllabus |

Since the birth of this three letter God in AEC industry, I have come across not less than 100 blogs, surveys, opinions and articles, and these are growing in leaps and bounds.
Even Architecture Institutes as usual seem to be pulling up socks for adopting this new technology, but with do’s and dont’s there are many [...]

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