American technology company Snaptrude is making its flagship building design tool free for architecture students across the ...

In the ever-changing world of design and construction, the tools at architects’ disposal have remained the same for decades. With its ability to deeply understand how architects design, Snaptrude has ...

A new approach to producing metamaterials draws on kirigami techniques to make three-dimensional, reconfigurable building blocks that can be used to create complex, dynamic structures. Because the ...

ScaffPlan for SketchUp allows scaffolders to design, plan, and present projects in 3D, generate gear lists and streamline ...

In our journey through the seemingly endless plain of remote collaboration sites, we found three companies, The Wild, InsiteVR, and IrisVR which specialize in VR building design for architecture, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. China’s rapidly growing middle class–and their willingness to spend–in recent years has notoriously driven up property prices in ...

3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the ...

Just as Adobe strove to make its PDF file format the industry standard for sharing documents and forms, so now is the company aggressively trying to make PDF the standard for CAD and 3D file-sharing.