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January 18, 2024

Ian Keough

My name is Ian Keough. I make software for designing buildings. In 2008 I created the first BIM visualization software for the iPhone, goBIM. I later sold goBIM to Vela Systems to become part of Vela Field. When Vela was acquired by Autodesk in 2012, I became part of the BIM 360 Field team. I created Dynamo in 2011 and worked on it for five years inside Autodesk. If you'd like to know more about Dynamo, you can listen to this podcast. In 2018, I left Autodesk and cofounded Hypar, which is building a new foundation for building design.

Media

Publications

Ian Keough & Anthony Hauck. (2017). From Pencils to Partners: The Next Role of Computation in Building Design. Architectural Design.

Craig Schwitter & Ian Keough. (2013). Continuous Integration. In Scott Marble (Ed.), Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design – Assembly – Industry. BirkhΓ€user.

Ian Keough, et al. (2011). Lifecycle Building Card: Toward Paperless and Visual Lifecycle Management Tools. In Proceedings of the 2011 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering.

Ian Keough & David Benjamin. (2010). Multi-objective Optimization in Architectural Design. Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim 2010), Orlando, Florida, USA, April 11–15, 2010.

Janet Echelman & Ian Keough. (2009). Monumental Nets. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery (Article No. 9, pp. 1–2). ACM.

Patents

Keough, I., Cozza, D., Kanner, J. L., & Omansky, A. H. (2014). Devices and methods for displaying a sub-section of a virtual model. U.S. Patent No. US20140368508A1.