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The presentation Building Design with Revit, Rhino, Dynamo & Grasshopper I did with Thomas Benedict Holth from Dark Architects at Revit Technology Conference Europe 2015 in Budapest in October was today announced the best rated session at the entire conference. We presented work on combining Genetic Optimization and Environmental Analysis
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"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke Three months ago I started working at Snøhetta. On day one I was introduced to a project that a team of architects were already working on. The
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How? There are hundreds of ways you can learn Dynamo. My good friend and mentor Julien Benoit at Groupe Legendre teaches his colleagues every day. Dynamo is so integrated in his team's project that they have to. For many of us this is more a case of playing
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"What is the coolest possible thing we can do?" Lars Robertsen at Autodesk asked me that question two months ago. I responded "Well that would be having Julien Benoit, Andreas Dieckmann, Matt Jezyk and Dieter Vermeulen come to Norway to show of amazing Dynamo material." I
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"Can you make a basic Revit video tutorial series for me", Rodrigo asked. "Of course." I did. It's out. You can listen to my ranting at thinkparametric.com/courses/revit-architecture-101 Margarida Jeronimo Barbosa at Dark helped me so much making this course
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BAM. One Saturday not long ago I woke up with a punch in the gut. I had snoozed the alarm and overslept. In a few minutes I would stand on a podium on Australia's Gold Coast, in front of a large audience giving a 75 minute talk on
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How do you learn to play the piano? You learn the basics, find a YouTube instructor, and practice a melody that you like. That's how I do it anyway. How do you learn computer software? You learn the basics, and find a problem that you love solving. That&
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I want to animate design iterations in Revit with Dynamo. Now I can. Thanks to the first ever Annual Dynamo Hackathon, which took place in Las Vegas during this year's Autodesk University, I am now able to create animations of a whole set of various parameter calculations and
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Yesterday morning I woke up in Istanbul. By noon I was back at the office in Oslo having lunch with my friends at Dark. That flight marked my final appearance as a speaker at international BIM conferences in 2014. I've been in Melbourne, Chicago, Dublin, Las Vegas and
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In exactly one week I leave for Las Vegas and Autodesk University Conference and Exhibition 2014. This will be the fifth time I attend this conference, and the third time in a row. This event will be far more intense than the four previous conferences combined. Here's a
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In about 24 hours my colleagues, friends and me depart for Dublin and Revit Technology Conference Europe 2014. This year's conference is the second ever, with the first being held in Delft, Netherlands a little over a year ago. That was a truly epic event, and I am
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A white sheet. For the first time for as long as I can remember, I start drawing on a white sheet. Not a sheet of paper. A clean, untouched white canvas on a computer screen. I use white paper sheets all the time, but I have never started to draw