Future-Proof Architect: 6-Month Learning Roadmap
Month 1: Sustainability & Green Building
Goal: Understand passive design, materials, and environmental metrics.
Tools to Learn:
- One Click LCA: https://www.oneclicklca.com/
- Ladybug Tools: https://www.ladybug.tools/
- LEED and BREEAM basics
Weekly Tasks:
1. Enroll: edX - Sustainable Building Design: https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-building-design
2. Study Passive Design: Orientation, thermal mass, ventilation
3. Learn Ladybug basics for solar radiation & shading
4. Analyze a real building using LCA tools
Month 2: Parametric & Computational Design
Goal: Learn to design algorithmically and automate processes.
Tools to Learn:
- Rhino3D + Grasshopper
- Python for architects
Weekly Tasks:
1. Learn Grasshopper UI and components: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParametricCamp
2. Create a generative facade model
3. Learn Python basics: https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/rhinopython/
4. Apply Python to automate geometry or analysis
Month 3: Timber & Circular Construction
Goal: Understand mass timber and circular construction logic.
Future-Proof Architect: 6-Month Learning Roadmap
Tools to Learn:
- Timber Construction Manual (ETH Zurich): https://shop.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783035612762/html
Weekly Tasks:
1. Read Timber Construction Manual
2. Study examples like Sara Kulturhus or Mjøstårnet
3. Learn design-for-disassembly (DfD) detailing
4. Analyze a building for circular potential
Month 4: Urban Resilience & GIS
Goal: Design urban environments for climate resilience and equity.
Tools to Learn:
- QGIS: https://qgis.org/en/site/
- UN-Habitat Toolkit: https://unhabitat.org/planning-for-climate-change-toolkit
Weekly Tasks:
1. Learn QGIS: https://www.qgistutorials.com/
2. Map heat island effect in your city
3. Study UN-Habitat Planning for Climate Change
4. Propose a micro-intervention (e.g., cool street, water plaza)
Month 5: Digital Fabrication & Robotics
Goal: Bridge design and making via CNC and robotics.
Tools to Learn:
- RhinoCAM or Fusion 360
- ABB + Robots plugin for Grasshopper: https://github.com/visose/Robots
Weekly Tasks:
1. Learn CNC basics (milling, turning, toolpaths)
2. Create fabrication-ready models (panels, frames)
Future-Proof Architect: 6-Month Learning Roadmap
3. Simulate robotic design using Robots plugin
4. Model a robotic brick wall or timber joint concept
Month 6: Frontier Architecture: Space, AI, and Psychology
Goal: Think at the edge: Space architecture, wellbeing, and AI.
Tools to Learn:
- NASA Habitat Research: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-habitation-systems
- Midjourney AI: https://www.midjourney.com/
- Healing Spaces by Esther Sternberg: https://healingplaces.org/
Weekly Tasks:
1. Explore NASA Deep Space Habitat Concepts
2. Use Midjourney for AI-assisted ideation
3. Study healing architecture and spatial psychology
4. Propose a space or underwater micro-habitat design
