BIM and Comprehensive Design Studio Education

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has the potential to fundamentally alter the way composition, scale and abstraction are addressed in todayis comprehensive design studio by displacing the primacy of abstract conventions of representation with a methodology based on systems thinking and virtual simulation. BIM viewed as provocateur of design education provides great potential for the critical analysis of how architectural design is taught. The design studio project reflects new ways of teaching and addressing BIM methods and processes, and critically evaluating their effects and possibilities on architectural production