Using Dynamo to Automate Revit Documentation, Not Facades
Eighty-four sheets. Every one needs a number, a name, a title block, and a view landed in the right place on it.
- Parametric
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How to Lay Out a Presentation Board So the Panel Gets It Instantly
Six A1s pinned along a corridor. The panel arrives, coffee in hand, and stops about two and a half metres back — far enough to see all six at once, too…
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Why Your Enscape Renders Look Flat — Five Causes and the Fix for Each
Put the two images side by side on the same screen.
- Realtime rendering
Architecture Portfolio Format: Page Size, Page Count and File Size That Actually Send
You've finished the content. What's left is the part nobody teaches properly: how big the pages are…
Peter Zumthor and What Architects Actually Mean by Atmosphere
Peter Zumthor designs the temperature, the sound and the smell of a room before he designs its shape.
After Planning: What RIBA Stages 4 to 6 Actually Demand of a Small Practice
Planning permission buys your client the right to start spending money. That's all it is.
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Why Your Architecture Practice Is Profitable and Still Broke
Your fees are fine. The problem is that you are lending money to your clients, several thousand pounds at a time…
How to Talk Through Your Portfolio in an Architecture Job Interview
Nobody in that room is going to read your portfolio while you talk. They can't.
3ds Max or Blender for Architectural Visualisation: How to Choose
Here's the verdict before the reasoning, because you came for a decision, not a feature table.
- 3D Modelling
Building Revit Families: The Decisions That Come Before the Geometry
There's a window in your model that refuses to cut the wall.
- BIM
The Building Regs Package for a Domestic Extension, Sheet by Sheet
Planning's through. The client thinks the hard part is over.
How to Carry Out a Measured Building Survey in One Visit
A measured survey is a drawing decision you make standing in the building…
Buy Depth, Not Motors: The Desk an Architect Actually Needs
Go and measure your desk. Not the width — everyone gets the width roughly right.
How to Research Architectural Precedents So They Actually Change Your Design
You already know the feedback before the tutor says it.
- Project
What to Put in Your Schedule of Services and Terms of Engagement to Stop Scope Creep
Three emails arrive over five weeks. The first asks whether the kitchen could be a metre longer.
From Surveyor's DWG to Planning Set: Existing, Demolition and Proposed Drawings
The DWG lands in your inbox at ten past four on a Thursday.
Taking One Enscape Scene Into V-Ray Without Rebuilding It
You don't rebuild. That's the short answer, and it should be the end of the anxiety: the geometry, the cameras…
Producing GIA and NIA Area Schedules in Revit That Survive a Design Change
Two area schemes. Never one. One scheme for your gross figure, one for your net figure…
- BIM
Building Architecture Models That Actually Change Your Design
A physical model is not one thing. It's three different jobs wearing the same coat…
- Drawing + Making
How to Turn Site Analysis Findings Into Diagrams That Read on a Crit Board
One message per diagram. That is the whole fix, and everything below is just how to execute it.
- Drawing + Making
Best Tablets for Sketching and Site Visits: iPad Pro vs Wacom vs Surface for Architects
The best tablet for architects in 2026 is the iPad Pro M4 13-inch, 512GB.
How to Set Up Work Sets in Revit Without Breaking Your Model: A Guide to BIM Collaboration
Nine times out of ten, a "corrupted" Revit model isn't corrupted at all.