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ASML books 'documentation recovery' as engineering — and so should your 14-person studio
ASML funds a decade-long program to keep 1990s scanners alive through documentation recovery — the same knowledge debt a 14-person practice carries undocumented.
The copilot we let into the model — and the door it left open
Microsoft Copilot's 2026 prompt-injection leak echoes the 2023 "Sydney" jailbreak. For a Swiss studio, the fix is a written access policy, not a licence.
Class, struct, or record: the three-way choice that mutates 4,000 points
A hands-on C# tutorial for computational designers: when a coordinate should copy and a model element should be shared — value vs reference, on 4,000 points.
The Model Everyone Owns: What Graphisoft's Collaboration Layer Asks of a 14-Person Studio
Graphisoft's new open collaboration layer and Archicad–Forma link promise one source of truth — here's how a 14-person studio should verify the IFC round-trip first.
The stadium Zürich never built — and what a 1952 competition still teaches a 14-person studio
A 1952 Zürich stadium competition, killed at the ballot box and kept in the gta Archiv, teaches a 14-person studio to cost, model and document its Wettbewerbe.
We finally put a carbon number on every BIM object — here is what it cost the studio
NBS and Circular Ecology's new guide puts A1-A5 embodied-carbon factors on BIM objects — geometry-led. What it means for a working studio's model.
L-systems in the Office: Four Rules, One Branching Grammar, and What It Actually Buys You
A 1968 algae grammar in three lines of Python — what branching L-systems actually buy a working architecture office, and where the fabrication cost hides.
Design intent in BIM: where the parametric model stops being a toy
A PAZ foundation essay on parametric design — how design intent survives the handover from competition sketch to a governable, auditable BIM production model.
The VBZ Depot Tender Asks for a Feasibility Study. It Needs a Model That Corrects Itself.
Zurich's VBZ depot tender asks for a staged masterplan on a site that never stops. The real deliverable is a BIM model with a correction loop — here's how.
Agentic BIM: what an office buys when it stops buying the next plugin
AEC Magazine says AI agents could reshape BIM in five years. The real lever for a small practice isn't the agent—it's the clean, open data layer it reads.
