The Future of Making Buildings | Phil Bernstein | TEDxYale

Humans have used drawings to design and construct buildings since before the Pyramids, often with unexpected results. This talk examines how digital technology might finally change that two thousand year-old tradition and radically improve the way builds are created, built and used.
Phil is a Vice President for Strategic Industry Relations at Autodesk where he is responsible for the company’s future vision and strategy for technology as well as cultivating the firm's relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Formerly a principal with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, he teaches Professional Practice at Yale where he received both his B.A. and his M.Arch. He is co-editor of Building (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture and BIM In Academia, a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and former Chair of the AIA National Contract Documents Committee.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@johnkellett7797]

I was using what became BIM in the 2000s in the early 1990. It was called Architrion. At least a decade ahead of Revit which was bought by AutoDesk at release 2.0. How dare the speaker claim ‘ownership’ of BIM. It had existed for a long time before and called Virtual Building.

[@alexnader81]

Hahahahaaa , "we bought a small company..." by that he really should have said "we bought the Revit company for their software once we realized the Virtual Building (early BIM concept) developed by Graphisoft 20 years earlier, was the future of the industry".

[@deanopatoni]

I completely agree. As a former ArchiCAD it was a massive backward step for me joining a practice that used only AutoCAD. I jumped at the chance to use Revit and although it was very slow compared to ArchiCAD which in comparison was lightning fast, I have grown to love it Revit (almost).

[@AlanEnriquez]

BIM or Revit were not created by Autodesk. Graphisoft created BIM (named Virtual Building back then) in 1982 with Radar CH later called Archicad. Revit on the other hand was created in 97 by Charles River Software. Then in the late 90's after tons of buildings that were being already design with BIM (Bilbao Guggenheim with Catia for instance in early 90's) Autodesk understood that Autocad, the very software that generated to them million$$$ of dollars, was an obsolete technology, and decided to buy Charles River Software to compete with Archicad, which was the leading 3D architectural software back then. Since, Autodesk has spent millions on marketing to pretend Revit as the original and only BIM solution (As seen in this talk). The rest is history.

[@kpena21]

Well they did a good job because I've thought that for the last 7 years

[@wino0000006]

Only Autodesk can sell two similar products to benefit from more profit. They started with AutoCAD Architectural Desktop that evolved in AutoCAD Architecture with BIM implementation but instead perfecting it - they just turn into Revit. I think over 90% AutoCAD Architecture users are not aware what this software can do - creating automatic scheduling tables for every possible item and counting all sort of data, automatic tags, etc. - but it is so not intuitive and a little bit complicated.

[@haoruchen4216]

on the contrary, the hand drawn skills will become precious, reserved for the special projects. think about that.

[@forfreedomssake4315]

I like this guy !

[@kpena21]

"I had to hide in a closet" just to use a computer?! that's crazy...This is my bread and butter now, I came into the world of engineering with AutoCAD turning 10 years old.

[@RICHMONDSTUDIO_59]

Yeah you can say that NOW....

[@adokorwothfoscar3289]

Nice

[@user9874561230]

3 out of 10 of that photos ( of wrong buildings) are in Albania.

[@user-pw4rl8li9c]

video perfecto

[@jooky87]

This is definitely the future. I worked as a construction manager for hospitals, and oh man, what a nightmare trying to make sure no interferences happened. Change orders up the ying yang!

[@i0.0t]

Nobody ever gets the spacing right when they do Yale

[@tinkertaylor4447]

Not a huge Autodesk fan. Just noted something wrong with the picture of the pipe that goes over a duct at 17:01min into the video. The picture on the left is not the same as the picture on the right. If you look at the red coupling on the right picture (just before the rise) there is a hangar near it..but not on the left picture. Also the pipe is tight to the underside of a shallow beam while the duct goes under a deep beam. Its quite possible that the pipe didn't need to rise and fall like that to get past the duct. Thirdly the BIMs technician clearly wasn't aware that a pipe rise like that can cause air-locks...there is not air vent on the high pipe. All-in-all this picture shows me all that is wrong with Autodesk......they make something that from the outside may appear to be sophisticated and the future in building design but in reality its just another way to sell over expensive and not very useful software to gullible architects.

[@sinch87]

the pictures are two different pictures, obviously... not showing the same pipe... BUT maybe its a picture showing an early version of an ongoing project. I guess there is also going a duct, underneath the pipe, which hasnt been installed YET... who knows :)

[@sinch87]

I am not a fan of autodesk but can you tell me please which software is more useful and should the building design industry use rather than Revit?

[@earlaweese]

*HURRY UP AND MAKE MORE SUPER-TALL SKYSCRAPERS.*

[@MrAnggawibawa]

👍👍👍

[@xueyanpan6657]

autocad and autodesk are a good example of a poor tool that is market leader only because is widespread and then "we also have to use it". try to teach autocad and try to teach sketchu, the first is just overcomplicated

[@cuscof2]

Over-complicated and over-priced as well.

[@charafcharaf6489]

Brazzaville

[@hdremus]

Autodesk would have been dead if this guy didn’t exist. However, they still produce AutoCAD for a very obscure reason.

[@nextvwest5517]

In future, there is no need of contractor. WTF :D BY THE WAY THANKS.

[@sinch87]

are you referring to the postcard :))

[@ss66798]

Nbny

[@robertsemar632]

this guy invented BIM?

[@totakingrighturns]

I love that he is gender-inclusive and states that anyone - man, woman, person - can be an architect, contractor, work in construction, etc. Thank you. Representation matters.