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“Architects may become a thing of the past” says ChatGPT

February 13, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Powerful new chatbot ChatGPT has delivered a stark warning to architects about the existential threat that AI poses to the profession. ChatGPT, which has generated huge attention since being launched by US company OpenAI two months ago, claimed that architects who ignore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) “risk sleepwalking into oblivion”. It made the

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Build: Architecture 2021 online event to explore frontiers of real-time 3D rendering

October 22, 2021 Dezeen staff 0
Zaha Hadid Architects' Twinmotion project

Dezeen promotion: Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, HOK and Foster + Partners are among the architectural practices giving presentations at Build: Architecture 2021, an event exploring innovative uses of real-time rendering. Build: Architecture 2021 is a two-hour showcase of projects that will launch on 2 November 2021, demonstrating how some of the world’s leading architecture firms

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Gaming technology can help architects “engage people in a more dynamic and inclusive way”

September 2, 2021 James Parkes 0
Twinmotion render by Joel Guerra

Visualisation techniques from video games could help planners and the public understand architecture, according to architects that use gaming software. Fly-throughs and interactive videos could make proposals understandable during the consultation and planning processes, they said. “A lot of people cannot understand [architectural] drawings,” said Adam Laskey of architecture studio Marraum, which has used visualisation

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Watch our Redesign the World workshop on how to use Twinmotion

August 10, 2021 Benedict Hobson 0
Twinmotion render by Joel Guerra

Last week, we ran a webinar on how to use architectural visualisation tool Twinmotion for those interested in entering our Redesign the World competition. The workshop is now available to watch in full here if you missed it the first time around. The workshop saw Belinda Ercan, ​​product marketing manager for Twinmotion at Epic Games,

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Watch our live talk on digital twins and mass timber with Dassault Systèmes and Waugh Thistleton Architects

May 20, 2021 Calum Lindsay 0
Waugh Thistleton CLT building

Dezeen teamed up with Dassault Systèmes to host a live talk with Waugh Thistleton Architects on the convergence between digital-twin technology and use of mass timber in construction. Dezeen’s chief content officer Ben Hobson moderated the panel, which is titled How Virtual Mass Timber Extends and Improves Real Mass Timber. French design software brand Dassault

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Enscape redesigns architectural visualisation plugin for “intuitive usability”

March 22, 2021 Dezeen staff 0
An architectural visualisation of a pair of towers

Dezeen promotion: Enscape has released the latest version of its virtual reality and real-time rendering plugin, Enscape 3.0, for the quick creation of high-quality architectural visualisations in “a few mouse clicks”. The Enscape plugin was developed to bring visual exploration directly into computer modelling tools, allowing users to focus on creating, designing, and building. The

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Arthur Mamou-Mani collaborates with Dassault Systèmes to explore “lifecycle of materials”

November 20, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Arthur Mamou-Mani collaborates with Dassault Systèmes

Arthur Mamou-Mani explains how he is partnering with Dassault Systèmes to investigate “cradle-to-cradle” architecture in the latest video of our Design for Life collaboration with the software brand. Mamou-Mani, founder of London-based studio Mamou-Mani Architects, is the fourth designer to feature in the Design for Life collaboration between Dezeen and Dassault Systèmes, which highlights designers

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Dassault Systèmes partners with Dezeen for a live talk with Arthur Mamou-Mani

October 1, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0

Arthur Mamou-Mani and Anne Asensio discuss the potential of computational design in this live talk which launches Dezeen’s collaboration with French design software brand Dassault Systèmes. Mamou-Mani, founder of London-based studio Mamou-Mani Architects, and Asensio, vice president of design experience at Dassault Systèmes, spoke to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how science and

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Revit software costs “reasonable” says Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost

August 20, 2020 India Block 0
President and CEO of Autodesk Andrew Anagost

The president and CEO of Autodesk has responded to criticisms of its Revit software, admitting improvements “didn’t progress as quickly” as they should have but rejecting claims it is too expensive. Writing on Autodesk’s website, Andrew Anagnost issued a point-by-point response to an open letter signed by 17 major British architecture firms, who complained that the

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“It’s good to see architects build up leverage towards software companies” say commenters

August 4, 2020 Karen Anderson 0
Architects criticise "lack of development"of Autodesk's BIM software

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing criticism of Revit from some of the UK’s largest architecture practices and sharing their views on other top stories. American software company Autodesk has come under fire for its Building Information Modelling (BIM) software Revit. In an open letter to Autodesk’s president Andrew Anagnost, 17 architecture studios

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