Archive · August 2026
Git for Architects: The Version Habit That Outlives Every Vendor
Why every Swiss Büro should run git init on its live project today: free, offline, vendor-proof version history for IFC, SVG and Grasshopper files.
Cache-augmented generation: the cheapest token is the one you never re-read
How CAG caches a frozen corpus to cut RAG cost — the O(n²) attention bottleneck, Redis TTL traps, and where a Swiss BIM studio should actually reach for it.
Akira's 160,000-cel pipeline and what it teaches your office about single points of failure
Akira's 160,000-cel, ¥1.1 billion production is a systems diagram: how pre-scoring and the seven-studio committee teach your office to delete single points of failure.
The Singing Roof: What Sou Fujimoto's House of Music Feels When Freddie Moves In
Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music hosts a Freddie Mercury tribute — and shows why every hall is tuned to one number: reverberation time. A PAZ acoustics read.
The stadium Zürich never built — and what a 1952 competition still teaches a 14-person studio
A 1952 Zürich stadium competition, killed at the ballot box and kept in the gta Archiv, teaches a 14-person studio to cost, model and document its Wettbewerbe.
23.4 Degrees and a Lumpy Geoid: the Physics Under Every Site Plan
Earth's 23.4° tilt, its lumpy geoid and your latitude decide every overhang and PV tilt. A four-line Python check for solstice sun altitude, Zurich-anchored.
