Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency

At the beginning of June 2019, a group of leading UK architects started "Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency"
architectsdeclare.com

The list of signatories rapidly grew, and as of 19 Aug 2019 they have 580 architectural companies signed up.

On 25th July 2019 a group of leading Australian architects followed suit with Australian Architects Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency, and within a few weeks had garnered 476 signatories (and counting).  The Australian Institute of Architects have endorsed the declaration.

If you know of any architectural companies who believe in sustainable design (or say they do), please ask them to sign up.  If  architects in your country have not yet initiated such a declaration, please ask them to contact the UK group so they can affiliate.

Architects in Norway have already started a similar initiative

LRUG Computational Design LT in Revit

Pump up the Volume - Control Panel using Adaptive Components

Last week I did a presentation at LRUG (London Revit User Group) entitled "Computational Design LT" - using Revit as a design tool, with model changes driven by sliders (100% Revit, no Dynamo).  This was achieved by various methods, including Adaptive Components and Global Parameters.   This talk was largely based on presentations that I did at RTC/BILT conferences in Scottsdale, Arizona and Adelaide, South Australia: "Power to the People" (2016-7);  and "Pump up the Volume" in Chicago and Melbourne (2014).

Sliders Using Global Parameters

In previous blog posts I have documented most of the background research I did on Global Parameters (refer to contents page).  In future blogs I will add more descriptions of how this works.

Sliders by Design

Power to the People - Global Parameters at RTC NA 2016

Here is a sneak preview of my upcoming presentation on  Global Parameters - "Power to the People" (Session 1.4 at 3.15pm) at RTC NA in Scottsdale, Arizona on 14 July 2016

This will be a presentation on how Global Parameters work, and how to use them for computational design - no Dynamo, API or any third party software involved - just 100% Revit 2017 and some brainpower:

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