Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching BIM and Autodesk® Revit® at the University Level

This class will present reflections and guidelines on teaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology based on Autodesk® Revit® software at the postgraduate university level. It is based on my experiences in creating and running 3 courses for the Master Program at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong. All the courses use Revit as a tool, but explore quite different functionalities and produce different results in the area of form design, parametric building components, and project documentation. The class will discuss how to use technology as a means to solve real design tasks and challenges. The general context of current challenges and opportunities for BIM development in the Hong Kong design and building industry will be presented as a background for the class.