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How to Get the View Attributes Right the First Time in MicroStation Files Translated From AutoCAD

Translation project between AutoCAD and MicroStation, there is always something that messes things up and needs to be changed to keep the customer happy.

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Stable Datums and Silver Linings for You in a Time of Adversity

The ability to deliver buildings that are markedly different, but which obviously carry the signature of a single creator is quite an achievement.

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Toyota and the Future City That Will Drive Itself

CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, is a place where groundbreaking electronics are unveiled, and this year Toyota blew everyone away with their latest project: a city.

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Walter Gropius Buildings

It’s kind of interesting that the founder of one of the most influential schools of design could not draw and was reliant on the work of his collaborators in order to bring his plans to fruition.

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Frank Gehry

The ability to deliver buildings that are markedly different, but which obviously carry the signature of a single creator is quite an achievement. Frank Gehry was named the most important architect of our age by Vanity Fair for a reason.

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Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid is probably the most famous female architect in the world. Nicknamed “The Queen of the Curve” by The Guardian newspaper, Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize and is the only woman to get the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Neri Oxman

Some of the architects that we have focused on before brought modernism into the natural world by mimicry in the lines and shapes that make up the geometry of their structures, or in the engineering of their buildings.

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Norman Foster

Anyone who has been to London is likely to have seen The Gherkin, and if you have marveled over the Apple Campus in Cupertino, then you have been admiring the work of Norman Foster.

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Le Corbusier

A French contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, like Wright, had a lack of formal training, and even complained to his art teacher at one point that he had “a horror of architecture and architects”.

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