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Everybody out of the pool! Submissions for Autodesk University 2009 have closed. Over 2300 session have been submitted, with "Architecture and Building Design" leading the way with over 23% of the proposals submitted.

Revit Architecture represents the greatest number of submitted sessions. Proposals for Revit Architecture are nearly 15% out of all the product proposals for AU 2009! The next highest product proposal was AutoCAD which has just over 11% of total submissions.

I've proposed two sessions. The first session is for intermediate users with a basic understanding of Revit and is entitled, "Insanely Great Stairs and Railings with Autodesk Revit".

While there's much that remains to be improved (ahem...rail joins...) there's a lot of amazing possibilities with what's in the box, provided you think a little outside it. The reason is that trying to get elegant design to spring forth complete from a spreadsheet is a battle of ever diminishing returns. A spreadsheet can get you close, but it always seems the details and exceptions to those calculated rules often require direct manipulation by a extremely focused design team. That's what this class is going to be all about.

Here's one extraordinary example that I'd like to use in the session. It's the glass spiral staircase from the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in NYC.


So please don't hesitate to email me photos of stairs and railings that you come across over the next couple of months. I'll use these interesting and challenging real-world examples to create the stairs and railings in Revit. And if I use your photo I'll be sure to give you credit and thanks. Please keep in mind that the session content - stairs, railings, renderings, etc. will be available to download after AU. This way everyone will be able to dissect the all of the Revit content at their own pace.

If you want to vote for this session, click the link below. Voting opens May 4th and will close May 8th.

Link: "Insanely Great Stairs and Railings with Autodesk Revit".