1. Coffee or tea?

Neither. That sometimes explains why I do not look so stressed out.

2. Novels or movies?

Both, I tend to binge-read or watch. I am a seasonal animal. I binge-read authors once I find books I like and it all started with Georges Perec. The same goes for movies. I enjoy sci-fi and dystopia.

3. Mountain or beach?

The ocean. I am from Brittany, France, but I live far from the sea and I need my yearly vaccine of salty water.

4. Favorite building?

Like every architect, many, but if I were to name one I experienced — the School of Architecture of Brittany. I studied there for a bit and it is where my passion for architecture stemmed from.

5. Favorite city?

Venezia! My dear friend, Francesca Rossi, is an architect there. She once made a map of all the places she loves — buildings, restaurants, bars, museums. I still have chills when I think about the first time I went there. The absence of cars and bikes makes us experience the city in a different way. One that makes sense.

6. Which project are you most proud of (that you’re allowed to talk about)?

If we’re talking about an architectural one, maybe the house I designed with my wife. A Passive House in the Czech Republic using a CLT panels structure and compressed wood insulation.

A design one, maybe our dinner table. Nothing fancy, it is simple, sturdy and light at the same time. It involves two materials I love to mix, steel and wood.

Another one is about coding. A set of tools I built for our team to analyze Revit projects. It is built in Python, and this got me down the pyRevit rabbit hole. That's how I became one of the maintainers of the project in my free time.

7. What is your most treasured possession?

Life.

8. What’s your secret skill?

Cooking.

9. How would your colleagues describe you?

"Machine de guerre" — a workhorse or a powerhouse.

10. Which word or phrase do you most overuse?

Can do.

11. Where are you happiest?

By the sea.

12. What helps you focus?

Music, lots of it.

13. Which habit would you most like to develop?

Playing piano, drums, saxophone or clarinet. And guess what my kids are learning!

14. Greatest achievement?

My 4 kids, even when I want to strangle them because they are a bit too wild sometimes.

15. What's missing from your LinkedIn profile?

Not much. Maybe my involvement in pyRevit is not explained enough.

16. If you could choose one superpower, what would it be?

Teleportation coupled with time travel.

17. If you could work remotely from anywhere in the world for a month, where would you choose?

Maybe a place I have never been to and have always wanted to go to when I was a kid — Mount Uluru in Australia, Chile, Brazil, or the Amazon.

18. What is a mantra you try to live by?

Get things done in a timely manner, share your knowledge, no BS.

19. Best piece of advice you’ve received?

A hard one to translate: "Pas de blablah, que du résultat" which would translate into: "No empty talks, just results." It comes from a friend of mine from when I was volunteering with GENEPI, an association that gives students the opportunity to teach in prisons. He used to go boxing and it was his trainer's motto.

20. What's the best thing that could happen to you today?

To stay relatively healthy as long as possible. To see my monsters (kids) growing and teach them everything I can.

21. What’s your favorite app on your phone?

None. My phone is just a tool, or something closer to a nuisance sometimes. And I try to teach myself to leave it in my bag as much as possible.

22. What machine do you use for work?

My brain and a desktop computer with two huge screens. A good mic and camera and more importantly good speakers to listen to music.

23. If you could change one thing about Revit, what would it be?

Ah ah ah! I have a love-hate relationship with it. The UI, the UX, and its owner's focus on making loads of money at the expense of a large base of small firms (the average size of architecture firms in Europe is close to 5-10 people). The pricing of Revit is not adapted to this market reality, and it always gets on my nerves. If the software was perfect, I would not whine about the price. But the truth is, it is not even close to perfect. Rant aside, having a macro tool in Python :)

24. Who are your favorite follows in the industry?

Andrew Heumann (Hypar), Ian Keough (Dynamo, Hypar), Paul Wintour (Parameteric Monkey) who wrote a great research paper on prefab, Speckle, Ehsan Iran-Nejad (pyRevit), and archiweb.cz is a great publication of architectural projects. My team at BIMOne — great and smart people with a particular shoutout to Franck Murat, my friend, boss and teammate for the past decade. A great deal of how BIM is practiced in Quebec stemmed from him.

25. Describe the AEC industry in one word.

Complicated.

26. Describe the future of construction in one word.

“MoreComplicated”. But we are trying our best to make it better and simpler.

27. What’s your favorite thing about working in BIM?

I get to discover all these new technologies and try them out. Then I get to work with clients to implement them.

28. What’s your least favorite buzzword in the AEC industry?

BIM.

29. What's your idea of a perfect workday?

As many clients as possible saying: "Thank you, that will help us a lot."

30. Which historical figure would you bring back to life to have on your team at work? Why?

Foucault, the French philosopher. We need an out-of-the-box thinker more than ever.

31. If you had to choose another profession, what would it be?

A chef in a restaurant or a spacecraft engineer.

32. Which technology will have the biggest impact on construction in the years ahead?

GPT's assistants. They will eventually provide seamless access to company knowledge. ControlNet type of rendering engines, like Veras, coupled with real-time renderers like Enscape. When I was studying, it took us days, if not weeks, to render images of the buildings we designed to be able to convey our ideas to clients.

33. What’s the most important skill for working in BIM?

Like in every other job, rigor and stubbornness...

34. If you could impose any rule or regulation for the construction industry, what would it be?

I'd rather remove lots of regulations and rules today. The amount of rules and regulations that need to be applied to a building design is terrible.

35. What's your favorite thing about Kinship?

The UI. Simple, clean and straight to the point