Computational Design ARCHITECT - A New Profession 

Its always nice to hear someone with similar ideas. I've completed my masters in architectural technology and energy performance and needing to gain some more years of of the building industry. I'm passionate in how we need to automate parts of the design. Whether its the geometric of the building which can affect thermal performance, natural lighting levels, whole life building calculations of embodied and operational carbon, acoustic performance, structural changes to compare diffent structual elements, etc. Some of the automation can be programs automatically calculates so if you make any changes to the model the calculations automaticlly updates for you. While other forms of automations can find the best geometric shape of the building on the site to take advantage of solar gains and limit overheating to name a few. You mention this to regular architectural practices and most treat it with a degree of skepticism of whether its worth the investment. It seems to be the practices and companies already heavily involve in the BIM enviroment and/or manufacturing see the advantage in automating the information needed. Or how software is able to produce more design iteration, faster which lets you compare and decide on the best, one taking into consideration factors such cost, thermal, sound, overall carbon performance etc.

hey milos, i’m following you as well since the beginnings of my studies five years ago and wanted to share that you were a good source of inspiration to take this career choice!

Love this thought. Congrats on those two projects. Amazing.

Very informative video

Hi Milos, I have been following your content on RU-vid and LinkedIn for a couple of years now. Your videos inspired me to learn python. I started out with creating geometries using Rhymo python script. Now iam beginning to clearly understand “ the proverbial click of a button” as you mentioned it in the video. I wonder if you could do some videos or courses on developing python codes in Rhino and Revit. I’m sorry if I’m asking for too much. But I’m genuinely interested in learning python and contributing more to the industry I belong to. Thank you

On my office we do hvac projects but still in 2D CAD. Wish there was a way to push foward but arch offices also on 2D still

sorry for my bad english, i've been following you for a while, can you recommend a work flow to adapt from traditional work flow such as cad-sketchup/rhino-revit (i'm from vietnam, so parametric is not as popular as other place on the world), for sure rhino and grasshopper are very powerful, but for a small and medium scale projects, its takes time and a lot of work/ knowledge to model everything as a parametric model

Sadly, very few architectural offices (at least in the US) will adopt what you are advocating. Even though it's obviously the logical right thing to do. Architect's fees are still largely tied to time, not value provided. Time-based fees predispose the architects against innovation and efficiency (you don't want to be the slowest, but no huge incentive to be faster either). And the bean counters at the top, making decisions for firms are so far detached from how architecture is done that they'll have no clue what you are talking about.

As a second year architecture student what programming language would you say would be the best to learn if you want to go into parametric modeling