EDITORIAL

February 2010

Some of you may have read the recent BD (Building Design) article Keeping an Eye on Technology. Various specialists were asked their opinion on upcoming technology. I read the article with what I need to term "speed interest", meaning that I was quite interested but couldn't allow myself the time to read it at normal pace - more like heart attack pace. Anyway, I got to Pete Baxter's bit, (Senior Director, Autodesk Northern Europe), wondering how on earth Pete had time to write for BD (sic) when I didn't have time to read it, and.. I got bored. I got bored with the standard BIM line. The rest of the article was quite inspiring -

.."sculpt and physically feel the shape of virtual models using articulated 3D arm devices"..."3D projections, more animation"... extreme "customising and control by the bottom user"...

- but the same old marketing blurb rehashed by Autodesk had me yawning in my short BD timeslot - not good! Can we give BIM to Apple marketing? Whilst waiting for the rest of the world to catch up with the iPhone (and I'm still on the iPod and not even latest generation, heaven forbid) they are onto the iPad. Architecture needs that new hit...now. BIM might actually make some headway then.

Meanwhile - what was the article that actually held several of us in awe for far more time than we usually allow for our lunch break? The one on Barbie as a role model for architecture. Not the article so much (go Barbie) but from a spin-off conversation we found - iLoveBarbieClan.com - a group of PSP playing blokes who love pink - with an attitude. Thanks lads for making our day.

By Karen Fugle, 31st of January 2010

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