Captain Lin Rauch
AGI, Hallucinations, AI Agents: The AI Glossary Your BIM Software Vendor Won't Give You
AGI has three competing definitions. AI agents are still being built. Hallucinations are a liability risk. Here's what AEC professionals actually need to know.
ISS CRS-24: What a Falcon 9 cargo flight reveals about robotics and quantum research in orbit
What the Northrop Grumman CRS-24 cargo flight to the ISS reveals to architects and BIM engineers about robotics, constraints, and resilience.
Artemis II Returns: What a Crewed Lunar Flyby Teaches AEC About Extreme-Environment Systems Design
Artemis II splashed down. Here's what Orion's thermal, life-support, and navigation loops teach architects and engineers about resilient systems design.
Artemis II is back: What 695,081 miles in Deep Space means for AEC professionals
695,081 miles, 14 countries, one validation protocol: What Artemis II means for architects and engineers in DACH.
13 500 m² of Programmed Ambiguity: What Babel Community Teaches Us About Coliving at Scale
D'HOUNDT+BAJART's 13 524 m² Babel Community in Villeneuve-d'Ascq exposes the regulatory gap every European architect designing coliving must solve now.
Seven Unbuilt Houses, One Dependency Graph: When the Section Outranks the Render
Lin Rauch on ArchDaily's seven unbuilt houses: one shared move — design the house as a section through its ground. Plus an earth-coupling Hack.
24 units, 2632 m²: What Igualada's affordable housing really says about Europe's housing crisis
4RQ and MBM Arquitectes build 24 affordable units in Igualada. What DACH architects can learn from this typology for their competitions.
Nonhyun 169: What a 520 m² Seoul Corner Teaches AEC About the Constraint-as-Generator System
See Architects' 520 m² Seoul corner building is a systems lesson in how FAR limits and height caps can drive — not block — architectural logic.
The Embarcadero Freeway Died So Your City's Next Viaduct Doesn't Have To
San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway reveals a system boundary failure still relevant to European urban infrastructure decisions in 2026. PAZ Academy analysis.
Princess Farm, Sintra: What Heritage Reuse Teaches the Drawing Board Today
What the 1,900-m² project by António Costa Lima Arquitectos teaches about Heritage BIM, Scan-to-BIM, and interdisciplinary heritage engineering.