AECCafe Today Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ CategoryTop ten trends of social media — innovation as per Randi ZuckerbergTuesday, November 29th, 2011At AU 2011 today, Randi Zuckerberg, Harvard grad and sister of the infamous Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, spoke on her experience and the impact of social media on our lives today. She went to work for her brother’s company after a stint of advertising in New York.
Carl Bass Q&A at AU 2011Tuesday, November 29th, 2011One of the best parts of Autodesk Media Day yesterday was the Q&A conducted with CEO Carl Bass.
Be Inspired Bentley Thought Leadership Conference starts Monday in AmsterdamFriday, November 4th, 2011On Saturday, I fly to Amsterdam to attend the Be Inspired Bentley Thought Leadership Conference held at the Hotel Okura.
Architecture 2030 keynote focuses on building’s contribution to global warmingThursday, October 6th, 2011As part of the recent AIA New Mexico convention, Edward Mazria, founder of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, delivered a keynote on “Architecture on the Brink.” Mazria said in working backward from the 2030 date, which was a data set by the scientific community, coal energy production will peak and phase out, then the world will get to where it needs to be to stabilize climate. On an even more hopeful note, nearly 3/4 of the top 30 architecture and engineering firms in the world have adopted the 2030 targets, as have 41 percent of U.S. architecture firms. In citing what would make design move forward with carbon neutral, Mazria offered changes in glazing, use of air conditioners, good construction, more efficient lighting, appliances, passive solar systems and photovoltaics. It was not clear in his talk how this would take place, as currently building in the U.S. is not very active. Perhaps he was directing this toward retrofits and building in other nations. The convention featured more than a dozen seminars on topics including Google SketchUp, innovative building systems and sustainable water systems. Tom Kundig, principal and co-owner of Olson Kundig Architects of Seattle, spoke about “kinetic architecture,” which he says refers to “architecture that can respond to whatever the existing conditions are, cultural or environmental.” AutoCAD products for Mac 2012Monday, August 22nd, 2011Rob Maguire, senior product manager, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD for Mac added features such as usability, documentation, communication and licensing. Features that are also new to AutoCAD 2012 for Windows in March such as associative array, multifunction, command line, which were all new features have been ported over to AutoCAD 2012 for Mac. Features that AutoCAD has had for sometime such as network licensing, some patch enhancements, layer groups, reference editing, larger drawing features are now a part of AutoCAD for Mac, as well as Mac Lion support and multi-touch gestures. For those traditional 2D users, LT is still a good choice at a lower price point.
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