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EP 023220 January 2025 · 50 min

How BIM is Changing Landscape Architecture: A Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies

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How BIM is Changing Landscape Architecture: A Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies

BIM is often discussed through buildings, but landscape architecture has its own technical challenges, workflows and opportunities.

Stephen Drew speaks with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies about using BIM in landscape architecture, adapting Revit, working with plugins and thinking about the future of digital tools for landscape and urban design.

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How BIM can support landscape architecture workflows

Where Revit helps and where workarounds are still needed

How plugins, parametric design and rendering tools fit into the process

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  1. · Stephen Drew

    Stephen Drew

    Hello, hello, hello. That's right, you urban designers, master planners, landscape architects. This one's for you in 25 seconds. Hello everyone. And welcome to this special. If you're an architect, you're probably thinking a lot of

  2. · Stephen Drew

    Stephen Drew

    time about the actual building that you're designing, how it works, and probably, especially if you're in a medium or large architecture practice, you're going to be using Revit. However, how does BIM work for not just the building, but the actual landscape outside?

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Alejandro Gatica

Gillespies. Guest on episode 0232.

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Gillespies

5 projects on Architecture Social.

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Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

West of Ifield

A landscape-led framework for a proposed 3,000-home community west of Crawley, with half of the site planned as public open space.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme

A landscape-led flood scheme that combines a new stream and lowered floodplain with habitats and public routes west of Oxford.

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