Adding to the Revit Masses

Over the past few years I've followed the growth of Revit via the Boston Architectural College where my co-worker Greg Demchak and I have taught an intro class for several years.  Over time the class size has grown as well as the number of students who mentioned their firms are switching over.  The college now offers 3 segments a week and this year we added a fourth advanced class.  Over 40 students per semester now!  Some images of recent student work was included in Greg's Introducing Revit Architecture 2010: BIM for Beginners.  I'll share three more below from a 8 week summer offering I just concluded.  Whittling the 16 week course down to 8 was tricky but I was amazed at how quickly the students picked up the concepts with only 24 hours instruction.  The renderings were done after only 20 minutes of demonstration from me which I think speaks a bit to the current ease of use of that feature.

Any other training/teaching stories?  How many instructors do we have out there?  I know of a few.

_erik

Richard Meier: Rachofsky House (Modeled by Luis Riobueno)


WPa: Villa Lucy (Modeled by Pei-Chi Liao)

 
Wheeler-Kearns: Bohan-Kemp Residence (Modeled by Liane Silevitch)

Comments

[Anthony]

Thanks for sharing, those look quite nice. What's with the black and beige on the Rachofsky house? .-)

[iyyy69]

Nice renderings!

I only bring it up because you bragged about it: while it's fairly easy to get a nice looking exterior rendering, it's fairly difficult (sometimes close to impossible) to get a nice looking interior rendering that isn't too dark or splotchy/cloudy/sparkly.

[Anthony Hauck]

I agree on the interior renderings and warn students of this so they can budget their time. Its still not the easiest thing and there are still issues but it got a lot better for students in R2009.

I should take the Meier model and re-render it in some patterned hues just to see if I'll get a call from an attorney. ; )

[Andrew Dobson]

I find the opposite actually. ARe interior renders are far more life like and accurate than external ones.

I wish that Revit had better grass, trees and textures for use on things such as hedges.