Archive · September 2026
RaumCreator, 9 September: the morning we teach the room to draw itself in Archicad
Join PAZ Academy's RaumCreator Archicad Powersession on 9 September 2026: automate room placement, naming and stamps. Learn the zone logic, not just the button.
WeatherNext 3 tops the leaderboard — now read its error bar
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 forecasts Swiss valley weather hourly at 5 km. For AEC teams the real story is the error bar, not the resolution.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face: The Day the AI Dependency Graph Got One Node Shorter
Nvidia's $12.9303B Hugging Face deal puts chips and registry under one owner. Draw your real AI dependency graph — and pin the models your desk relies on.
Your backtest is lying to you — build the 40-line Python bot that proves it
A Sunday pandas tutorial on the three ways a backtest fools you — lookahead, survivorship, overfitting — and the one-line fix every builder's model needs.
Nature-Inspired Algorithms: What the Water Cube's Foam Already Knew
How gradient-free metaheuristics — genetic algorithms, swarm, NSGA-II — grow structural form, why they work, and why the architect still hand-checks the code.
A Roof Found, Not Drawn: What Munich's 1972 Tent Still Teaches My Generation
The Olympiastadion's cable roof was form-found, not designed — what equilibrium structures and TNA teach heritage smart buildings about listening to their own loads.
Reality capture became a layer in someone else's platform — who owns your site record?
Procore's $845m DroneDeploy buy turns reality capture into a platform layer. The real asset is the scene graph — who owns your site record now?
ITER's coldest tolerance problem: a 17 m magnet that shrinks 50 mm before it works
A 17 m ITER fusion coil cold-shrinks ~50 mm at 4 K and still lands inside a millimetre. Neil Mitchell's retrospective, read as a tolerance lesson for your site.
After summer, AI back at your desk: inside our KI Back 2 Work Camp
PAZ Academy's KI Back 2 Work Camp on 23 Sept 2026: scope Archicad automation, tag project data, and put AI to work on your first week back. Bring one real task.
Eighteen Bits That Build a City You Have to Pay to Heat
Conway's Game of Life is B3/S23 — eighteen bits of rule. Play the sketch, read the party-wall share, and bring compactness to your massing review.
