Category: Customer Stories


  • Architect Q&A with Architectus: “Shopping for AEC applications is like being a kid in a candy shop!”

    Steve Fox, Digital Practice Lead and Principal at leading Australasian architecture practice Architectus, chats with us about digital toolkits and a great user experience, adapting to clients’ technology needs, and how Forma offers the Architectus team a platform for design exploration and collaboration. Steve, what’s your role at Architectus?My role is Digital Practice Lead and…


  • Weston Williamson’s approach to outcome-based design with Autodesk Forma

    Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P) is an award-winning architecture and urban design practice that’s part of the EGIS Group and operates globally. Giulia Pustorino, BIM Manager and Digital Lead at WW+P, provides insight into how the practice prioritizes outcome-based design and takes advantage of technology like AI and Autodesk Forma to drive sustainability in their work.  …


  • How A-lab effortlessly deployed Autodesk Forma for its architects 

    We recently had the pleasure of engaging in a conversation with Angie Mendez, Architect and Technology Director at A-lab, a process-driven architecture studio. Angie, in her pivotal role, emphasizes the importance she sees in helping A-lab transform into a data-driven organization and she credits Forma as an instrumental tool in supporting this transition. In our quick…


  • How Stantec is using AI to reduce carbon in the built environment 

    In this blog post, we share insights from our conversation with Mike DeOrsey, Digital Practice Manager at Stantec, a global leader in design and engineering consultancy. Delving into sustainability challenges, Mike details the difficulties that is posed by calculating carbon too late in the building design process. He shares the firm’s excitement about Forma and…


  • Architects working in Autodesk Forma

    How Arcadis makes data-led sustainable decisions with Autodesk Forma 

    As Arcadis, a global leader in design and engineering, advances its sustainability goals to reach net zero by 2035, we had the opportunity to chat with their Digital Lead, Caoimhe Loftus. In our conversation, Caoimhe shares her team’s goal to democratize sustainability, ensuring it isn’t an expert-only task. She openly details how the use of…


  • How Baker Barrios Architects made dramatic business gains with Forma

    Since winning the Forma Design Contest in 2023, American architecture firm Baker Barrios Architects (BBA) implemented Autodesk Forma to enhance the schematic design process, boosting creativity and improving client service. Read the full story here about how BBA leveraged Forma as the basis of an innovative digital workflow that consolidates the functions of 4-5 different…


  • Nordic municipalities are embracing data-driven urban planning 

    “Digital support for urban development improves the process and dialogue with stakeholders. When everyone sees how and why different solutions affect the environment, we can have more constructive conversations and make better decisions.”   These words belong to Oskar Berglund, ​​Land Development Engineer at the Swedish municipality of Malmö who is leading the detailed planning of…


  • Designing resilient cities: a data-driven approach to site analysis

    What happens when cars make way for pedestrians as part of a 15-minute city? How do environmental conditions impact people’s wellbeing? With these questions and more in mind, students from the College of Architecture, Planning, and Urban Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) presented a bold vision for the revitalization of South…


  • Designing with data: Rethinking South Downtown Dallas as a 15-Minute city

    Students from the College of Architecture, Planning, and Urban Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), presented a bold vision for the revitalization of South Downtown Dallas. Designed in the spirit of 15-minute cities, their masterplan took a sensitive approach to a complex site, carefully considering densification, quality of life, new urban connections,…


  • Lessons in designing sustainable happy homes

    As architects, engineers, and scientists, we are called to reimagine the future. The need to move to zero carbon, regenerative economy is undisputable, and climate change is descending upon us. We have been trained to imagine the future and build the imagined. But are we well equipped to design a future in which we will…