2020.2.11. Tech Perspective in Buildings

2/11, Tuesday. Microsol Resources hosted this half day conference at Seattle Art Museum.

9:00     Emilio Krausz, President | Microsol Resources
9:30     Maria Mackey, Real Estate Director | Vulcan Real Estate
10-11:00 Salla Palos, Director of Transformation Services | Microsoft
         Angus MacGregor, Principal | Olson Kundig 
         Robert Otani, Principal | Thornton Tomasetti | CORE Studio
         Josh Rodgers, Integrated Construction Manager | Mortenson
11:30    Donna Laquidara-Carr, Industry Insights Research Director| Dodge Data & Analytics
12:00-1  Nicholas Desbiens, Head of Digital Practice | KPF
         Scott Crawford, Principal | LMN Architects
         Burt Goncalves, Studio BIM Leader | NBBJ

Lots of glamorous photos of beautiful architecture and installations. Lots of software to view (3D, VR), export, tune parameters, in design as well as construction. Learned this new term BIM (Building Information Modeling). I enjoyed most of the presentations, except for Palos/Microsoft (no substance) and Concalves/NBBJ (reading the slides). I especially like what Crawford does at LMN, playing with circuit board. Seems odd for an architect.