Archive for March, 2010
Based on the concepts known from Ecotect Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 enables you to simulate the sun path, in order to better understand the impact of the sun in relation to your project and its surrounding context. The sun path is a visual representation of the sun’s range of movement across the sky at the [...]
Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist at Rocky Mountain Institute, gave a five part lecture series titled “Advanced Energy Efficiency: Concepts and Practice” at Stanford University in March 2007. Lecture topics included: Buildings, Industry, Transportation, Implementation, and Implications. The streaming video below shows the lecture on buildings. Click here to downlad a PDF of the presentaiton slides. [...]
Architect Neri Oxman is the polymath MIT Media Lab fellow who graced the cover of the fastcompany Most Creative People issue for her work tearing down the traditional walls in architecture and engineering. Here she discusses her notion of a new design mindset that is performance-focused and indifferent to disciplinary boundaries. She is the founder [...]
The American Institute of Architects has issued a statement endorsing open standards and encouraging its members to take an active role in adopting it. “The AIA believes that all industry-supporting software must facilitate, not inhibit, project planning, design, construction, commissioning and lifecycle management. This software must support non-proprietary open standards for auditable information exchange and [...]
