• 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 for schematic design that’s 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…


  • 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…


  • Terrain editing made easy with Forma Site Design

    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. Autodesk Forma is pleased to introduce the new Terrain Pad tool, now available under the Landscaping tool in Forma Site Design. This enhancement brings terrain editing closer to your…


  • SSOE Group: Improving sustainability outcomes for industrial projects with Autodesk Forma

    In this insightful interview, Ana Luisa Verduzco Aguirre and Dulce Nayree Lopez Parra, Architects at SSOE Group, discuss the challenges faced while working on industrial projects. Through a case study featuring an industrial manufacturing facility in Coahuila, Mexico, they explain how Autodesk Forma helped alleviate some of these challenges and enabled better sustainability outcomes. Comparing…


  • Bringing together FormIt Pro and Forma capabilities

    We are excited to announce that Autodesk is bringing FormIt Pro and Forma capabilities together to create a unified design experience that will transform early-stage building planning and design.    With Forma, Autodesk will provide an improved design environment for architects and other AEC professionals, initially focusing on the planning phase for building projects of all…


  • Baker Barrios: Forma functions like a “time machine” to test future scenarios

    Since winning the Forma Design Contest last year, the team at Baker Barrios Architects has hit the ground running using Forma to transform their way of working and improve their client service. In the film we visit their Orlando office to see how they’re building innovative digital workflows, connecting Forma with VR, 3D printing and…


  • Forma Serious Game

    Egis Group architects uncover the beauty of data with an Autodesk Forma design challenge  

    Numerous Egis Group architects got to experience data-driven design first-hand at our recent serious game exercise in London.  Architects at Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P), 10 Design, and SB Architects, all global design practices and part of the Egis Group, had the opportunity to try Autodesk Forma when we partnered recently for the serious game…