ACADEMY
Grasshopper from Zero: Your First 90-Minute Jump into Grasshopper 2
Grasshopper 2 beta adds inbuilt loops and a play/stop timer. A 90-minute first jump: slider, Series, point grid, one line of GhPython. Start tonight in Rhino 8.
From Caracas towers to a Grasshopper desk: Pablo Levine's BSS graduation streams 25 August
From Klumpner's Caracas Vertical Gyms to a Grasshopper-and-Galapagos desk at ETH D-ARCH: watch Pablo Levine's PAZ Building System Specialist graduation, 25 Aug 2026.
Compression Is Learning: An Afternoon With scikit-learn on Your Own Machine
A hands-on scikit-learn tutorial: compress a facade photo with k-means, see why prediction equals compression, and keep every pixel inside Swiss jurisdiction.
Before you let a model draw: Dr. Mikhael Johanes' BSS AI talk
1 Sept 2026: Dr. Mikhael Johanes opens PAZ's BSS Edition XIV with a talk on what an ML model really does when it reads a design brief. Free, open door.
NURBS in 30 Minutes: The Four Numbers Behind Every Curve You've Ever Lofted
Degree, control points, knots, weight — the mathematics under every Rhino curve, taught hands-on with the open-source rhino3dm library. Clone it and read the four numbers yourself.
Graph engineering for the BIM desk: build your clash-check as a state machine
LangGraph turns clash-detection into an auditable state machine. A PAZ Academy hands-on tutorial: build a cyclic clash-check graph, route severity, keep humans in the loop.
The engineers who stopped waiting for Swiss software: Seidler & Steiner at PAZ, 1 September
Two Pirmin Jung engineers built the Swiss structural software they couldn't buy. A PAZ-Next talk on form-finding timber loads and desk-built façade tools.
From toast to trusses: the thinking you learn before any language
Learn algorithmic thinking the way Oregon State's ENGR 112 teaches it — flowcharts, while/for loops, top-down design — built on Mermaid for AEC workflows.
Pattern Recognition on the Building Site: Teach scikit-learn to Sort Your IFC
Fisher's 1936 discriminant, four lines of scikit-learn, and your own IFC export: a hands-on classifier that triages dirty BIM imports for Swiss studios.
The place of truth in Grasshopper: Sebastian Lieb brings his wood-structures pipeline to BSS XIV
PAZ Academy's BSS Edition XIV opens 1 Sept 2026 with Sebastian Lieb's Archicad–Grasshopper–RFEM timber-structures pipeline. What it teaches and who it's for.
