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The Committee on Design (COD) was founded to promote design excellence among members of the AIA, the broader design community, and the public at large, both nationally and internationally.

2024 COD Conferences

Arkansas

April 3-7 | 21c Hotel | Bentonville and Eureka Springs - Registration is sold out.

Brazil

Thu, Oct 17 - Sat, Oct 26, 2024
Sao Paulo > Brasilia > Rio de Janerio.  Registration will open in late April.

2024 Sponsorships

Download the prospectus for Arkansas and Brazil opportunities.


2023 COD Conferences

Last year, COD held two domestic design conferences investigating The Authenticity of Place.  The first conference was held in New Orleans, LA.  View the short video of the venue tours and download the conference program book. The second conference was held in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, September 21-24, 2023. Download the Minneapolis guidebook and view the conference video. 

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BIM for Design: publish your work

  • 1.  BIM for Design: publish your work

    Posted 03-17-2016 04:30 PM

    Dear colleagues,

    I am the author of BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design, and a contributor to the Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, with an article on BIM for small firms and small projects. I am currently working on my next book on BIM for design. A central thesis of the book is the role that building information modeling can play, beyond merely improving documentation and coordination, in supporting architects to optimize design outcomes. That is, I’m interested in exposing the particular design opportunities that BIM offers.

    If you have a recent project in which your firm's use of BIM was integral to your design process, or facilitated certain design opportunities, I would very much like to hear about it. I don’t have a particular agenda with respect to how BIM was used: whether for building performance, novel or expressive geometry, or advanced 3D fabrication. My only criteria is that the architects whose projects are represented use BIM as more than just ’better, faster CAD’.

    Please email me offlist if you’d like to share your story.

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    François Lévy, AIA, AIAA
    M.Arch, MSE
    Author, BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design
    http://is.gd/UJPFta

    http://www.francoislevy.com
    Twitter: @Francois_Levy

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    Austin, TX 78701
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