Reading Response

          I agree that BIM is the future of architecture as a profession.  However, this notion will be much more widely accepted among the next generation of architecture teachers as opposed to the current one. For instance, here at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, several members of the faculty are very forward thinking and support the teaching of BIM instead of more traditional tools such as drawing and physical model making. However, many professors still firmly believe in and support learning that takes place through the physical act of drawing by hand. Until the faculty not only at University of Maryland, but schools all around the world, accept and support the use of BIM as a new learning tool.  Furthermore, once this evolution occurs, BIM will be understood not simply as a representational tool, but an integral new approach to the design process itself.