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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.
Schindler rents out seven robots — but the office still owns the shaft
Schindler's R.I.S.E fleet hits seven self-climbing shaft robots with 50,000 anchor bolts set. The fleet model puts the burden back on your IFC shaft model.
Admares + ABB: When the Housing Factory Becomes the Building Site
Admares and ABB Robotics are building AI-enabled modular housing factories. What it means for an architecture practice's IFC round-trip and model ownership.
BIMnopoly: the week we stopped paying the format tax
Physical AI could decouple meaning from format and end BIM lock-in — but only for offices that keep clean, machine-readable IFC semantics. A practice view.
