Jonathan Cohen and Associates
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Creating Effective Web Sites: The ability to create Web sites is an essential business skill. Fortunately, the tools now available make creating Web sites both easy and fun, and anyone with basic computer skills can do it. Building a Web site requires a design process with distinct steps, not unlike the phased design process architects use to design a building. more...

Visualize in Steel: The CIMSteel Integration Standards are the logical product model and electronic data exchange format for structural steel, developed by the Pan-European Eureka Project and adopted by the American Institute of Steel Construction. The CIS/2 to VRML translator enables 3D visualization of structural steel in a Web browser. more...

Cohen is "effed:" Jonathan Cohen is elected to the AIA College of Fellows. more...

Design for Constructability: Graphisoft CEO Dominic Gallello expects the construction industry to adopt the techniques pioneered in the manufacturing industry in the 80s and 90s. In both manufacturing and building , a 3D model, rather than drawings, should be the basis of design communication. more...

Fly over Venice and other cities with TerraFly (be patient -Java applet) more...

Synergies between Sustainable Design and Constructability at the Pentagon: Sustainable design and constructability are often addressed separately from each other in building projects. This paper examines the integration of these two goals in the Pentagon renovation. more...

KidBuilding: Build kids clubs online: An interactive guide to programming, budgeting, designing and even selecting colors for kids clubs. more...

Recommended reading:
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent

Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis, by Anthony Max Tung

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle

Artificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture, by Paul Shepheard

If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice by Carla S. O'Dell, Nilly Essaides and Nilly Ostro

Communication and Design with the Internet by Jonathan Cohen

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Coming attractions:
Jonathan Cohen will speak at these events:

Steel Construction eCommerce Strategies Industry Roundtable, March 23, 2004, Long Beach, CA, more...

AIA04 Convention, McCormick Place, Chicago: Cool Tools for Designers: Sketching, Visualization, and Presentation, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, more...

Intranets and Web Portals for Project and Knowledge Management, Saturday June 12, 2004, more...

AIA TAP/ACADIA joint conference: fabrication: a conference examining the digital practice of architecture Cambridge, Ontario, November 11-14, 2004. How can emerging industrial processes reshape building design and construction? Design ideas, technical innovation and fabrication expertise will come together in this forum where theory can be translated into practice. more...