Hand & CAD - The Wireframe Years - 4
1990 … CAD was in its infancy. Three dimensional modeling of buildings was difficult, but impressive in its results. Wireframe perspective views were regenerated and printed fairly quickly. Hidden line regeneration and printing however, was very slow. It was especially slow on complex buildings. In June, desperate for work, I got a call from Rafael Viñoly Associates. They wanted me to work overtime in their offices for two months on the development phase renderings for the Tokyo International Forum ( Forum competition blog post ). As it happened, the work was more like a continual design development sketch job. I worked with a handful of young architects who were familiar with CAD. I did modeling, generally coordinated the CAD work, and also sketched views to review with Mr. Viñoly. The Tokyo International Forum was a very complex building. The hide line process was very slow. It was so slow that we had to model and select views during the day, and run hidden line printing ...