BIM in Architecture Education June 25, 2008
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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 how’s still to be answered.
The first question before why BIM is what is BIM?
Its “Building Information Modeling”, which is here to make the whole experience of teaching and learning much simpler. I am not going to go in depth of what BIM is all about, as it has already been discussed in length by many experts on various occasions and websites. Alternatively, Google a bit!

An Integrated model in BIM software.
This blog is an effort to find answers to many how’s, that have come from heads of the Institutes, faculty and even students. First, let’s dive deep into Architecture curriculum to understand how it is spread over entire course of Architecture education. In Indian scenerio, its like a five storied building, students get in into it at the bottom storey and jump out from the top after acquiring many skills.