• Serious fun: data-driven design that hits all the right notes

    Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Guest blog postAuthor: Marco D’AmbrogioLead for Architectural Intelligence, Sweco Denmark Last September, Daniel Rees from Skanska and I, representing Sweco Architects Denmark, had the honor of competing on…


  • Free course: Design performance and sustainability with Forma Site Design, Revit, and Insight

    Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. With the increasing complexity of projects today, meeting high sustainability requirements demands new skills from architects to evaluate and improve building performance. In parallel, new data-driven tools are…


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    Five tips for learning Forma Site Design

    Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Author:  Daniel (Onyema) Udeze, Educational Consultant at Global eTraining With the accelerating pace of technological change today, AEC firms don’t want to risk being left behind. The most…


  • Accelerating site design to BIM with Forma, Finch, and Revit

    Autodesk Forma, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. This blog post is adapted from the Autodesk University 2025 session: From Site Planning to BIM with AI: Accelerating Early-Stage Design with Finch and Forma Site Design. Watch it here.Read…


  • How Stantec used Forma’s sustainability analyses to improve building performance and patient wellbeing

    Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Stantec has leveraged Forma Site Design to fast-track the design of Dubai’s first integrated cancer hospital. Faced with a tight schedule and ambitious sustainability goals, Stantec’s global team…


  • Environmental analysis

    Designing resilient communities: Arcadis’ data-driven approach with Forma and ArcGIS

    Autodesk Forma, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Our world is changing, and the way we design our environments much shift accordingly to meet new climate and societal demands. Having accessible context and environmental data from the…


  • How Drees & Sommer accelerates data center design with Autodesk Forma

    Autodesk Forma, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Drees & Sommer, an international consulting firm specializing in construction, real estate, and infrastructure, has developed a fully cloud-based workflow using Autodesk Forma to confidently tackle the challenges of…


  • Introducing Forma Building Design: An easy-to-use detailed building design solution with automated design tools and integrated analyses 

    At Autodesk University 2025, we are thrilled to unveil Forma Building Design – a pioneering cloud-based solution set to transform the building design landscape. As part of the Forma industry cloud, Forma Building Design empowers project leaders, CAD, and BIM architects to create detailed building models with speed and precision.  We plan to release a…


  • How to start using AI for design storytelling

    Autodesk Forma, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Executive summaryThese are highlights from the 2024 Autodesk University Class hosted by Krzysztof Jedrzejewski (Principal Group Product Manager Autodesk Forma); Bill Allen (President, EvolveLAB); Ben Guler (Vice President, EvolveLAB). In…


  • Autodesk Forma meets ArcGIS: how integrating geographic data gives designers a decision-making edge

    Autodesk Forma, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. The new ArcGIS for Autodesk Forma app combines Autodesk Forma’s intuitive planning, design, and analysis tools with powerful geographic information system (GIS) data from Esri’s ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS…