ABSTRACT
The evolution of next-generation software tools for AEC design professionals will continue to take the user deeper into simulation, optimization and problem definition as mere representational concerns fall away from their preeminent position. Perhaps no better example of value creation in pursuit of a query, as it relates to the future state of the AEC industry, can be found in MIT professor and Israeli-born architect Neri Oxman. Former vice-president at Autodesk and one of the company's chief visionaries in AEC, says the value of next-generational tools come into play. AEC designers will both embrace next-generation tools and start asking probing questions that break down barriers and assumptions. The heart of the AEC digital tools, disruption has been the Building Information Modeling transformation, which fundamentally drives at a new type of collaboration model that challenges notions of expertise, disciplinary turf, the standard of care, intellectual property and the way the Academy prepares future practitioners.
