BIM Design

Acknowledgements

Books, like buildings, need to be actualised through material processes, and the creative procedure of writing, editing, formatting and ultimately printing, undertaken by many, shares similarities with the processes of building actualisation described herein.

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who have lent their thoughts, comments, time and inspiration to the actualisation of this book:

Helen Castle has been a wonderful and thoughtful editor, and she and her staff at Wiley have twice now made this process fun and enjoyable. Mario Carpo has always been willing to review and comment on my work, and has written a generous introduction. Urs Gauchat has offered his comments on early drafts, and has been a great supporter and advisor for many years. Karen Franck has been a fantastic colleague, who has offered much advice on this and other projects. My staff at GRO Architects past and present, especially Scott Corey, for their dedication to our work and for the generation of the many images and illustrations made especially for this book. The faculty, students and staff at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have created an incredibly stimulating home for me there, and have provoked many of the thoughts articulated here. And of course, Nicole Robertson, who won’t let me fall down.