This category is for topics concerning Early stages of design. The questions that concern this stage are:

In an ongoing design, the architect needs to iterate (repeatedly go over cyclically or spirally, to put it in simple words). As per John Zeisel’s book “Inquiry by design” Each iteration itself has 3 parts: Conceptualize, Create and Criticize.

This is the stage where conventional BIM starts being used in architects office. However, conventional BIM is a product of last few years (Since 2003 onward) In context of the history of architecture; BIM is just a flash in the pan. So the questions that need to be asked

In the construction stage, conventional BIM could be useful. Still as being part of AIM; one needs to explore questions such as the following…

During the usage of the architectural project; there are a million questions that needs to be discussed. Some of them would be

This category contains topics concerning various tools that help or at least is supposed to help information at least in some parts of the architecture information modelling. One obvious candidate would be conventional BIM tools. Others could be rendering tools, tools for acoustic analysis, energy analysis and so on.