ACADEMY
Before a building can feel itself, someone must learn to build the system
PAZ opens Building System Specialist Title XIV on 1 Sept 2026 — five months, six hours a week, teaching Grasshopper-and-Archicad system-building over manual drawing.
The Building Would Like a Word: PAZGPT Comes to Archicad
An AI chat layer on Archicad's Python API lowers the cost of the first question — but only an inspectable schema underneath makes the answer trustworthy.
Grasshopper 2.0 Alpha: Twelve New Components, One Broken SDK
GH2's alpha renames its root namespace and orphans plugins. What that means for your office's definitions — plus a 90-minute Grasshopper-from-zero path.
The Robot That Clicks Your Buttons: Agentic QA and the Architect's Web Tool
A YC startup sells natural-language web testing. Underneath sits Playwright — open source, one install. A hands-on tutorial for AEC studios shipping web tools.
Windows Are Where My Skin Leaks: Why PAZ Runs a FensterFit Session on 15 July
PAZ Academy's free 30-minute Archicad Power Session on 15 July 2026 tackles window workflows — parametric openings, schedules that update themselves, less rework.
Obsidian: A Local-First Second Brain You Actually Own
Obsidian rebuilds Luhmann's Zettelkasten as plain Markdown files you own. A hands-on PAZ tutorial: clone, link, git-version your studio's knowledge graph.
Grasshopper before Python: the cognitive-load case, taught with PyMuPDF
Why PAZ teaches Grasshopper before Python — cognitive-load theory, then a runnable PyMuPDF script that reads your next tender's text layer in four lines.
Window schedules that survive the next revision — our July 15 Archicad session
Our 15 July 2026 PAZ-Next Power Session teaches Archicad windows that hold their fit, labels and counts through every revision — plus a five-line IFC check.
One Agent, Six Surfaces: Cloning Nous Research's Hermes Agent for the Studio
A hands-on PAZ tutorial on Hermes Agent v0.18.0 and hermes-webui: clone the MIT runtime, sandbox it on Docker, and map its dependency graph before you trust it.
Fearless on the GPU: data-race-free CUDA kernels in Rust with cuTile
NVIDIA's cuTile Rust brings memory-safe, data-race-free CUDA kernels to Rust — 2.07 PFlop/s on a B200 with no runtime tax. A hands-on PAZ Academy tutorial.
