GRAPHISOFT BIM Curriculum

GRAPHISOFT offers teachers and university lecturers a full-fledged BIM Curriculum to support the education of students, young architects and building industry professionals. This unique educational resource includes 12 seminar lectures supplemented by Lecture Notes and Teachers Notes to cover a full semester.


  • language: English
  • presentations: 12 PowerPoint files, 223 slides total
  • lecture notes: 12 PDF documents, 142 pages total
  • teachers notes: 1 PDF document, 28 pages
  • extent: One semester (12 lectures)


Topics Covered

The presentation materials introduce the conceptual background of BIM, rather than comparing the capabilities of commercial software solutions. The lectures cover various topics, such as how BIM changes the architectural design workflow, construction coordination or sustainable design. The first lecture provides a generic overview of the fundamentals of architectural representation and as such it is intended for those who want to learn about BIM without having a professional architectural background. For laboratory practice GRAPHISOFT recommends using the different volumes of the ARCHICAD Training Series.

Table of Contents

The following presentations are included in the package:

  • Architectural Representation
  • The BIM Concept
  • Computer Modeling
  • Computer Visualization
  • Publish your Work!
  • Collaboration
  • Construction Coordination
  • Calculation
  • Sustainable Design
  • Parametric Object Technology
  • Computer-aided Manufacturing
  • Documentation

Software Requirements

  • Microsoft PowerPoint for the presentations
  • PDF reader application for the documents