Author: Dan Villeneuve, Design Technology Manager/BIM Manager
As a guru of all things Autodesk and lover of Design Technology, I have come to realize that the required tool for our industry is a longer list of software than ever before. It made me think back to when I was first interested in buildings as a boy, sketching the Gore Estate on my sketch pad (not the iPad app) with as little as a pencil and a pad of paper. The days of entering this industry for the purpose of art are being substituted with technology. Or are they?
Some people today are still entering this industry for a root love of drawing and a love for the art of architecture. They can think back to a time when they were simply awestruck looking up at the utter magnificence of a skyscraper as they stood at the base of one. Soon there will be a generation of people that has never put pencil to paper for the purpose of drawing a building. Instead, people are drawing on their computers and are very efficient at it from a very early age.
Our tools are changing, our methods are changing and even the artistry of our craft is changing. But do we stop to take a look long enough to identify it as art? For those of us who may have started out with a pencil and a drafting table but have found ourselves loving or even just interested in the modern designs taking place today, we may want to take a minute to look at the process of generating building data during its life cycle and recognize it as a modern reflection of our changing industry.
If you ask me, yes, it is art. And art is not being substituted for technology, it is becoming one. A modern art form has evolved from the never forgotten pencil and paper into a sophisticated mesh of multiple minds, shapes and forms. All of these designs and drawings that could once be looked at as individual art from each trade or discipline are now coming together to form the most sophisticated visual art our industries have ever seen.
It is an art we have come to call a Building Information Model.
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