{"id":3054,"date":"2015-09-02T07:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T07:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:11:56","slug":"modelmaking-in-the-digital-age-symposium-videos-ed-bartlett-gregor-anderson-introduced-by-neil-vandersteen-foster-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"Modelmaking in the Digital Age Symposium Videos: Ed Bartlett &#038; Gregor Anderson Introduced by Neil Vandersteen, Foster + Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3062 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide23-e1438263745570-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Slide23\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide23-e1438263745570-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide23-e1438263745570-448x300.jpg 448w, https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide23-e1438263745570.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>&#8220;Everyone in the office uses models. Everyone produces models all the time. It&#8217;s the way the office designs and is an excellent designing tool. It&#8217;s been a philosophy of Normans right from the outset.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Its a constant battle to convince the teams to just let us build the difficult complex elements. Parts [are added] to sketch models or foam models. They work really well with hand built models. We try to avoid building big blocks of expensive material as it&#8217;s a terrible waste of the technology.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8211; <\/em><em>Gregor Anderson, In-House Rapid Prototyping Manager at Foster + Partners<\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As one of the most well known practices on the planet we were very pleased to welcome three representatives from Foster + Partners to present their insights as part of Modelmaking in the Digital Age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Head of Modelmaking Neil Vandersteen introduced the presentation explaining and overview of the company and how modelmaking has proved a constant through changes and expansion. Ed Bartlet, Model shop CAD Support Manager explains the increased use of CAD as a starting medium that has come to begin almost all projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide91-e1438263816133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3063\" src=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide91-e1438263816133-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Slide91\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide91-e1438263816133-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide91-e1438263816133-413x300.jpg 413w, https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Slide91-e1438263816133.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Integrating with other professions within the organisation is a common theme which continues with Gregor Anderson, Foster + Partners in-house Rapid Prototyping Manager. Gregor talks through the uses of RP and it&#8217;s integration the long established modelshop. With over 50 full time modelmaking staff at Foster + Partners there is little sign of this tool disappearing anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/video.manchester.ac.uk\/embedded\/00000000-55d4-c201-0000-0192dd3b8b40\" width=\"660\" height=\"380\" style=\"border:none; overflow: hidden;\" scrolling=\"no\"  webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everyone in the office uses models. Everyone produces models all the time. It&#8217;s the way the office designs and is an excellent designing tool. It&#8217;s been a philosophy of Normans right from the outset.&#8221; &#8220;Its a constant battle to convince &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=3054\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[686,443,566,542,565,677,545,674,681,687],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainfeed","tag-architecturalmodels","tag-b-15tv","tag-ed-bartlett","tag-foster-and-partners","tag-gregor-anderson","tag-modelmaking-in-architectural-practice","tag-modelmaking-in-the-digital-age","tag-modelmaking-in-the-digital-age-videos","tag-neil-vandersteen","tag-rapid-prototyping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}