Renee Chang in her arcticle for AIA's Report on Integrated Practice entitled " Suggestions for an integrative practice" directly address's my comments from my first reading response. I was concerned that Revit and BIM in general causes designers and students to jump straight to the final stages of a project without first designing in a conceptual manner. In her article Cheng states a similar concern "If BIM is introduced in the curriculum without respecting its considerable liabilities, design thinking will not survive" She does however add that this way of thinking "should be valued." She defines design as critical thinking, and believes that it is that aspect of architecture that may be lost if students precede too quickly to BIM software. She states that the "most important aptitude - critical thinking: the ability to simultaneously envision multiple aspects of a problem and their relationships before proceeding toward a solution."
Of course she also adds that a knowledge of BIM software could also be very valuable to a student and that most of their knowledge of actual architectural parts does not come until after graduation."The potential effect of BIM on the design process is unprecedented, and the ease in which it can translate directly into built form can equally be viewed as exciting or alarming." Her main distinction of the problems that arise from BIM creations is that “construction can be achieved through problem solving, while architecture requires design thinking.” She ends with the statement of a future where "BIM has effectively made us too stupid to question the rules and assumptions we are meant to control." The question is how do we learn to use BIM while not forgetting that rules are sometimes meant to be broken?
http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aias076788.pdf
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