How Frank Gehry's Firm Uses Technology

AECbytes launched its Feature Article series in the last week of February with an article entitled, "Technology at Work at Gehry Partners: A Case Study." This study takes an inside look at one of the most renowned and innovative architectural firms in the world today and explores their use of Technology. Frank Gehry has always been synonymous with unconventional architecture, and this article looks at how the firm deploys software and hardware to conceptualize, visualize, and document these organic forms and guide their execution into real buildings that people can inhabit. In particular, with the growing interest of the architectural profession in building information modeling (BIM), it also investigates whether one of the most cutting-edge architectural firms does BIM, and if so, how.

Also just published is a newsletter that takes a detailed look at sheet sets and the other new features in the upcoming AutoCAD 2005. Look out also for the upcoming product review of the project management solution, Prolog, by Meridian Project Systems, and the next feature article, an inside look at the IFC building model that has become the defacto standard interoperability standard for the AEC industry.

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Editorials> March 2004