I was listening to some talk by Grant Sanderson on Ellipses. He makes wonderful videos on mathematics and geometry. You should try his YouTube channel “3Blue1Brown” There is a lot of rich material there. That brought back old memories — when I was an associate at Architect Hafeez Contractor. There…

Warning: Metaphors galore! I sometimes used to feel like the boy who cried wolf. I kind of sense a pattern that to me is quite apparent; but for some reason it does not register much among the rest of the architects community. For some reason, since the seventies; architecture has…

We architects need to really re-think how we should go about modeling the built-environment. We risk leading to chaotic models — they may be seductive and attractive alright but may be wrong for the world #architecture #AIM #BIM #design Read further at LinkedIn (most of the articles on TAD are summarized here but the full article is on LinkedIn) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaos-can-seductive-sabu-francis/

Architecture is the context inside which life synthesizes. Synthesis and Analysis are two kinds of thinking we do when solving a problem. We analyse to sift apart the constituents of a problem. When we synthesize; we put the solution together. Life is always in a bubbling state of synthesis: At each and every instance, things are put together for us to make some sense of and react to. Good problem solving requires one to iterate repeatedly between synthesis and analysis — till a solution appears; ideally one that uplifts life. Something like kneading dough; till it achieves the right consistency for making the bread

This article explores the wider ramifications of the understandings and misunderstandings of crypto-currency. (This article assumes that the reader knows what is a blockchain. If not, see this video) Though I am not really an expert in this area; last few weeks was intense. I have been following the developments…

Here is an article that I wrote which highlights the fact that current conventional BIM software does NOT really handle the actual design of architecture — even if it in some specific cases it does handle the construction of some architectural projects It is high time we architects started getting deep in to computation in architecture instead of relying only on what mechanical engineers and computer scientists tell us

The story of BIM (Building Information Modeling) was always there. Since humans moved into caves. One needs to take an informative decision to move one’s family into a cave. One tiny bit of this topic in architecture is getting theorized since late 90s and 2000 onward. In fact, there are…

A work of #architecture can only arise of a #design process. The process needs to be expressed in a neutral, clear language — one that is not prone to intepretation errors. Conventional #BIM comes in only at final stages of design. #TAD allows architects to express the model as it gets designed from very early stages. This article explains why putting the design into an expressed language, is possibly one common starting point for all #architects. Get your free copy http://www.teamtad.com

This article has been written in my LinkedIn blog. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yes-bim-sabu-francis Excerpt: Even if the term BIM is new, fair amount of theoreticians have been asking the central question: Shouldn’t we have a 3D model that captures the entirety of a building — and not just the visual data but also the embedded information? In a small town in India (Navi Mumbai), I was extending this question: Instead of just having a static model — shouldn’t we be having a set of neutral, abstract alphabets to capture a dynamic model, which not only captures the final design but also need to capture the entire process of designing?