ACADEMY
Arrays for architects: the one Python list that holds your building
Learn the one data structure behind every generative script: from w3schools' fruit list to looping your whole IFC model with IfcOpenShell. Day 1 of Python for AEC.
Start C# From One Variable — and Learn to Read an IFC Line While You're There
A hands-on PAZ tutorial: scaffold your first C# console app with the .NET SDK, then read an IFC wall line as the same named variable. Notepad-proof, vendor-proof.
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.
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.
Your LLM never reads your IFC — it reads tokens, and IFC is the worst case
An IFC line costs ~31.6 tokens at 2.33 chars/token — 2.2× English. Measure it with tiktoken, and the "AI is bad at numbers" folklore becomes engineering.
BSS Title XIV opens tomorrow: five months to build the tool your office is missing
Edition XIV of PAZ Academy's Building System Specialist Title starts 1 September 2026: five months of Grasshopper, Archicad and Revit automation you build yourself.
One volume, two hosts: what crossed clean between Grasshopper, Revit and Archicad
PAZ ran one Grasshopper volume into Revit and Archicad live — the BRep crossed clean, the deconstruct's first port didn't. The practical interoperability lesson.
buildingSMART Certification in 2026: worth it — or just learn to read the file?
Is the buildingSMART Professional Certification worth it in 2026? A Swiss cred-eval — plus how to actually learn IFC 4.3 with IfcOpenShell in an afternoon.
Reciprocal Diagrams in Kangaroo: Read a Structure's Forces as a Second Shape
Dan Piker's Kangaroo-examples repo turns a relaxed mesh into a second force-diagram shape. A hands-on Grasshopper tutorial for architects and engineers.
Watch a solver get overruled: Pablo Levine Mardones' BSS graduation stream
Pablo Levine Mardones defends the 39th PAZ Building System Specialist project live on 25 Aug 2026 — watch where an architect overrules Galapagos, and why.
