Ian Keough—CEO and founder of Hypar and the father of Dynamo—on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings, and thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and generative AI.



Connect with Ian

Hypar

Hypar Elements

Hypar on Discord

Favorite quotes

“What would we have to build to have [our new AEC software stack] decoupled from all of the historical and legacy software?”
“I just can’t stand toil.”
“You don't wanna penalize the customer for using the system more.”

Links

Revit
Tekla
AutoCAD

PyTorch

Unity

Dynamo

Grasshopper

Python and C#

IFC

OpenAI Codex

DALL-E

Stable Diffusion

GPT

Runway ML

Gather

Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot

NVIDIA’s Omniverse

Calendly

Zebra G-750 retractable gel metal pen

People mentioned

Andrew Heumann

Matt Campbell

Serena Li

Chuck Driesler

Eric Wassail

Eric Bass

Anthony Hauck

Brian Ringley

Chapters

00:00 · Introduction
02:08 · Hypar
12:02 · Hypar Elements
14:11 · Visual programming
16:59 · C Sharp
18:24 · Grasshopper on the cloud
19:57 · Do I need to code?
22:11 · Toil
24:03 · Sharing
26:00 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination
37:16 · Remote work
39:27 · Gather
40:44 · Monetization
48:18 · Advice for young people
49:11 · A $100 purchase
50:47 · Artificial intelligence
53:32 · Sustainability
55:37 · Exercise
57:33 · Generative AI



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Thanks to Andrea Villalón Paredes for editing this interview.

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