How to revise our thought
We can get stuck on ideas, good or bad.It takes giant effort to revise ideas held tightly.For many it’s impossible (this is a truism well clarified by Max Planck): Even just a few revising edits are impossible: Drawings are still a vital part of the process. I’d omit the word “still”.And “a vital part of”.…
Old Software
Everyone knows it’s all old now. Very old. While I’m apt to ask “who cares?” knowing few do, I’ll tell anyway about my experience with AEC software since 1993 and since ’98 modeling whole projects in complete detail digitally. I found a long lost Compact Disc of mine in a box returned a few weeks…
Looking (seeing) and thinking are a loop
Drawing is the vehicle for looking with intent—at models mental, physical, and digital—and showing that you did. What is the intent?The answer has two components: 1. Notice the loop: 2. Notice the intent (told on the black field below), the whats: The intent really is about getting ourselves into this loop. The set of drawings is…
Types of visualization in AEC
Such a list is like any other list; no matter how many things you list, others will clamor to lengthen the list. I’m not interested in list exhaustion though, so I limit this to two types of visualization in AEC, both workhorses, the latter a war horse. Rendering is about showing what it’s like to…
What mature athletic steps would look like if taken
In one way or another I’ve been after this since 2007 Absurd notions — about the demise of technical drawing in architecture, engineering, and construction — trample over discourse since 2004, and overlap with decades of inconsequential development of the most common software applications in AEC. The situation is stagnant.It starts with the absurd notions. Drawing is…
If I’m passionate about telescopes does that mean I’m against the night sky?
If I’m passionate about telescopes does that mean I’m against the night sky? Here’s how people closely look at, how they study AEC models to both develop and interpret them. It’s what they think about, what they need to think about, and how they think about it. It’s the actual function of drawing. It’s all…
Pretty big jumps, into what?
Give or take a few years: 1983: software apps, for drawing lines, arcs, shapes, text… 1998: new features include the 4th iteration of a line trimming tool 2002: “drawings are just dumb lines and arcs”; it’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) now! 2010: It’s time for “Moving Beyond Geometry”; It’s the “I” in BIM (data, “information”)…
Looking with intent, and showing that you did
If we identify what people are actually doing when they’re developing and interpreting technical drawings, we’d be looking at the problems addressed by the core work of AEC professionals. If we’re hungry and need to eat, we can make a spear, throw it into a wild boar, clean, cook, and eat it. There are instruments…
Focus Devices in Hybrid Data: Usefulness in Design Thinking and Communication
Unpacking from a move and found a book with my paper in it from 2014. Still nice I think. drawing-model fusion since 2012 (like fusion of sound in film) – 26 videos It’s not that this stuff was done, and automated, and so long ago. It’s what it suggests that’s yet to be done. Everything…
If you ask the wrong questions and answer them correctly, where does that get you?
You can think of this at the scale of life in general, or narrow it down to some specialized area of interest, any area you like, including my particular interest: the last 4+ decades of software development for (AEC) Architecture, Engineering, and Construction. I’ll jump into the subject again of course, with some points in…
What’s going on when we’re engaged in the work of perception, of things very complex
How do we perceive things, and very complex things? What things?The world around us and everything in it. Whether walking around in everyday life, or engaged in professional work on projects in architecture, engineering, construction, industrial design, manufacturing, shipbuilding, power plants, dams, and all such things, precision instruments, furniture, plant process facilities, etc., you name…
What is (forget artificial) Intelligence, and to what is intelligence applied in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction professions?
I start with a really brief review of 40 years of software industry rhetoric about technical drawings: First, drawing was about placing and trimming lines and arcs. Then by 1995 it was about automating drawings from 3D models. By 2003 it was common already to hear calls for abandoning drawing altogether, “because models”. Stop here…
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