Can we use BIM to sketch ideas out, like we do with pencil and paper? Quick sketches, exploratory diagrams, analytical studies? That’s part of the motivation between my invented term “the BIM pencil”.
My second slogan. “the way we build” tries to capture the idea of using a wide range of tools and techniques to understand a crucial element of human culture. We have been building shelters for tens of thousands of years. Cities go back perhaps 10 thousand. There is a rich story that can be told around those different ways of building. I am a great believer in “learning by doing” and a proud tradition of architects who studied the glories of the past using the tools and methods of their profession.
I read and I collect books. I take photographs and store them in digital archives that I have maintained for a couple of decades now. But I also use this source material to sketch and model. I puzzle things out for myself.
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