Take control - Zulfikar Adamu
During Subject Futures week, we had the opportunity to engage with a various range of professionals that presented and talked us through their experience in practice.
One of the most lively, interactive and knowledgeable presentation was held by Dr. Zulfikar Adamu, Lecturer in Architectural Technology at Loughborough University.
In the last decade, the world of building has slowly began to shift from a manually-constructed design to a digital world, where simulations began to emerge and an overall better control of data led to better, quicker, safer end results. BIM has revolutionized the way we produce, distribute and sell good drawings and products.
Unfortunately, there are not as many BIM users as there are coders or programmers, or even people with only a little notion of what this actually means and what it can do for you and your career as a current architect.
Dr. Zulfikar has run us through the series of steps that one has the possibility to take, in order to immerse into the knowledge of coding.
Firstly, he has made clear how Object Oriented Programming works, and he established the current existing need for people to explore the patterns and formulas behind such software.
Then, he went on to explain that, the first steps into deciphering the programming languages, is getting familiar with some of the main ones that deal with your preferred domain. Revit and 3Ds MAX are built in C#. Other popular languages are C++, DYNAMO, Java, JavaScript, KRYPTON, etc.
Once the basics have been covered, over a period of some months of serious engagement, the knowledge becomes transferrable between these languages, and one can begin to build his own macros and plugins.
We were advised to watch this:
Since 2014, Coding was made mandatory in the English Curriculum. Students need to pe preparred and tutored to be emersed into their future careers. Young professionas need to take control of their domain, to be able to interract with the software they use. In this way, we can assure a high quality standard for the built environment.
