Archive · September 2026
Your Wohnungsspiegel is a query, not a table — an Archicad Powersession on 16 September
PAZ Academy's Archicad Powersession on 16 Sept turns the Wohnungsspiegel into a self-updating Interactive Schedule over your Zones — not a hand-typed table.
Roman Is Up: A Billion Galaxies, and the Old Problem of Flattening a Sphere
NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched 30 Aug 2026 with a 100×-Hubble field. The same projection math that maps a billion galaxies flattens your site plan.
Infrastructure Systems Design: why the honest engineer solves the whole web at once
A PAZ foundation essay on Infrastructure Systems Design: coupled constraints, NSGA-II Pareto fronts, and why the honest engineer optimises cost, carbon and resilience together.
Your first C# method: from empty folder to a running Windows app
Install the free .NET 9 SDK, write your first C# method, and run a Windows console app this afternoon — a PAZ Academy hands-on intro for AEC coders.
PAZ KI Back 2 Work: the September desk-return, and one AI move worth keeping
PAZ KI Back 2 Work runs 23 Sept 2026 — for returning architects and engineers who want one AI move wired into their Monday workflow, not forty tools to forget.
The surface said calmer, the boreholes said record: Switzerland's permafrost in 2025
In Switzerland's warmest year above 1000 m since 1864, the surface cooled while 70% of PERMOS boreholes set record permafrost temperatures at depth.
Day one of the Python sprint: the humble `if`, taught on your own IFC model
Day one of the PAZ 7-day Python sprint: turn W3Schools' if statement into a real IfcOpenShell fire-rating gate on your own IFC4 model in six lines.
GPT-6 Astra: the operator arrives, and your dependency graph just changed
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra drives your whole toolchain and scores 100% on ExploitBench. Why an operator model changes your studio's dependency graph — and what to scope Monday.
Four pursuers, one kernel: the maze-chase that reads a street map
The four ghosts are four target functions over one greedy kernel — the same argument a planner makes reading a street network for chokepoints.
Two Clocks: Why the Grid, Not Your Building, Decides When You Open
The IEA's Electricity 2026 shows a five-to-fifteen-year grid clock behind every one-to-three-year build. On any electrical load, own the connection date.
