Introducing Revit Architecture 2010: BIM for Beginners

515 Pages·2009·19.64 MB·English

by  Tatjana Dzambazova

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Introducing Revit®
Architecture 2010
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Introducing Revit®
Architecture 2010
BIM for BegInners
TaTjana Dzambazova | EDDy KrygiEl | grEg DEmchaK
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Dzambazova, Tatjana.
Introducing Revit architecture 2010: BIM for beginners / Tatjana Dzambazova, Eddy Krygiel, Greg Demchak. — 1st ed.
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ISBN 978-0-470-47355-9 (paper/website)
1. Architectural drawing—Computer-aided design. 2. Architectural design—Data processing. 3. Autodesk Revit. I. Krygiel, Eddy, 1972- II. Demchak,
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To Gotthard, Philippe, Andrea, Chronis, Trey, Christoph, Simone, Mark, Shaun, Dave,
Marek, Siggi, Håvard, Steve, Nicolas, Tomislav, Shobhit, Dheya and all other passionate
Revit believers of this world. And to Michael, for his love and patience.
—Tanja
For my beautiful daughters, Zoë and Maya
—Eddy
To my parents, for always being there
—Greg
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Acknowledgments
Hats off to the
innovators who conceptualized, designed, and made
Revit happen. You have changed the world! ■ Huge thanks to all the faithful fol-
lowers! Without you, Revit wouldn’t be what it is today. ■ Personal thanks to the
grand masters Philippe Drouant and Phil Read for their invaluable help; to Simone
Cappochin and Kubik Nemeth Vlkovic, who keep on doing beautiful architecture
with Revit and are willing to share it with us; and to our friends, Martin Taurer,
Paul Woddy, and Emmanuel Di Giacommo, for their contributions. To Matt, Nathan,
Lira, Greg, Zachary, Jaap van der Weide, and so many other colleagues for their
heroic effort to create the fantastic new Conceptual Design tools in Revit 2010 that
are paving a path to a whole new working paradigm. Sincere thanks to all the hard-
working developers, product designers, and quality assurance testers from the
development team of Revit, for their dedication, passion, and love of Revit. ■ We
would like to express our sincerest gratitude to our friends, the architects who gen-
erously shared their work, allowing us to inspire you with it: Andrea Torre, Kubik
Nemeth Vlkovic, Andrea Sader and Ines Magri; Simone Cappochin and A.U. Ser-
vice; E. N. Raycroft; T. Castro; A. Blood; D. Belcher; RMJM Hillier; Gensler; Mon-
tealegre Beach Arquitectos Ltds; Mario Guttman, Miles Walker , Lee Miller, Julio
Gonzalez, Luis Fernández de Ortega, and HOK; SPBR Architects; Mark Bassett;
Matthew Hogan; Craig Barbieri; and the fantastic crew of Cut&Paste—the innova-
tors of the Design Slam documented in the Project Gallery. ■ And finally, thanks
are due to our excellent support team at Sybex, who helped us develop and focus the
content; Laurene Sorensen, for making a philosopher, a non-native English speaker,
and a dyslexic look good in print; Liz Welch and Linda Recktenwald for making it
grammatically correct; Liz Britten for keeping tabs on all the parts and pieces; and
a special thanks to Willem Knibbe, for his willingness to go to bat for us and deal
with our high-maintenance attitudes.
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About the Authors
Tatjana Dzambazova became known to the AEC industry
through her passionate evangelizing of Revit in its pioneer days
(2001–2005) and for being the product manager for Revit
Architecture (2005–2007). After this, she moved on to research
Web 2.0, social networking, and virtual worlds and later moved
on to conceptual design, design computation, and digital fabri-
cation in AEC, advocating the broader Autodesk technology
portfolio relating to those trends. Before joining Autodesk in
2000, she practiced architecture for 12 years in Vienna and London. At Autodesk, she
focused on advocating technology and established herself as an internationally renowned,
inspiring speaker who fosters relationships with architects and industry leaders all around
the globe. Powered by seemingly unlimited sources of energy and passion, Tanja manages
to make three days out of one, always on the hunt for what’s new and exciting in the world
of architecture and technology. Tanja is mad about wild animals, is a compulsive reader,
loves riding her Ducati Monster, and playing Scrabble and Texas Hold ’Em. She currently
lives in San Francisco.
Eddy Krygiel is a senior project architect, a LEED Accredited Professional, and an
Autodesk Authorized Author at HNTB Architects, headquartered in Kansas City,
Missouri. He has been using Revit since version 5.1 to complete projects ranging from
single-family residences and remodels of historic structures to 1.12-million-square-foot
office buildings. Eddy is responsible for implementing BIM at
his firm and also consults for other architecture and contract-
ing firms around the country looking to implement BIM. For
the last four years, he has been teaching Revit to practicing
architects and architectural students in the Kansas City area
and has lectured around the nation on the use of BIM in the
construction industry. Eddy also coauthored Green BIM, a
book on sustainability and BIM, with Bradley Nies.
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