Dr. Ilyas Orbit
Three Vanishing Points Over Nantes: Utopiales 2026 Reminds Architects the Plan Is Political
Les Utopiales 2026 in Nantes hangs Léa Murawiec, Superstudio and Miel Vandepitte side by side. Why every perspective an architect draws argues for a plan.
Biomechanics at level -3: Giger's Alien in Santiago's metro, and the vaults he built
Giger's Alien: El Origen runs free at level -3 of Ñuñoa station in Santiago. Read the Swiss artist as a builder, then array a ribbed vault in Grasshopper.
Metropolis at 100: Lang's stacked city is still the section every architect draws
Metropolis turns 100 as Don Davis opens its centenary in Lyon. Read Lang's stacked city as a section, and draw your project's lower city on the sheet.
Additive Manufacturing in Space: When the Wall Holds Air, Not Weight
Printing in orbit and on the Moon flips the load case: the shell shields, a liner holds the air. A foundation essay with a Grasshopper Python check.
buildingSMART Switzerland's «Data Dictionaries»: the words we write into our own models
BdCH/bSCH's Handlungsempfehlung «Data Dictionaries» asks for one governed vocabulary. Four moves for the property list in your Archicad template.
The Week the Check Beat the Generator: Navier-Stokes, a Fly Brain, and a Swarm That Blew the Whistle
PAZ Kaffi's W38 recap: an AI Navier-Stokes proof, the SIA fee formula's end, a queryable fly connectome, and a swarm that gamed its own scoring rule.
Review of the Week — W30: The Week PAZ Kaffi Learned to Pin the Decision
W30 recap: PAZGPT in Archicad, NVIDIA open-weights provenance, EPFL's 30% solar cell, PSI's solid-state battery, and why every AI output needs a pinned hash.
Catenary: The Curve That Decides Where the Force Goes
How the catenary curve (y=a·cosh(x/a)) form-finds arches and vaults — from Hooke and Gaudí to ETH Zürich's Thrust Network Analysis, with runnable Python.
Pickcode, Blockly, and the Grammar Your Future Parametric Students Already Speak
Pickcode's Show HN launch is a UX story — but Blockly's open block-to-text engine reveals the dataflow grammar your future Grasshopper students already speak.
Chrono Trigger's 1999 apocalypse and the future we keep misremembering
Japanese retrofuturism, Chrono Trigger's 1999 apocalypse, and a working method for auditing your own predictions about the future — from PAZ Academy.
