Architects and the New iPadPro: Should You Buy One?

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Can tablets help architects better conceive and execute their designs? If you’re skeptical, you’re not alone. To a certain extent, architects are still unsure if meaningful work can be created on an iPad. As the novel of virtual reality wears off, it’s worth asking if portable augmented reality is the push forward that will combine the best of traditional and digital architectural technology. So beyond their utility as lightweight, untethered screens, what can tablets offer the professional architect?

The iPad is an endless clean slate that appeals to creatives’ desires to sketch or illustrate in a way befitting of our time. Until 2015, with the launch of the first Apple pencil, users of Apple’s products could employ a third-party stylus but the inaccuracy and discomfort of these tools proved hopeless as practical or useful architectural drawing implements. As a result, there was no industry-wide surge in the adoption or demand of iPads for architects.

Flash forward to 2018, eight years after the initial launch of the iPad. The capabilities of the hardware itself have increased and the integration of ARKit have heightened the appeal of these devices for architects. And, evolving in step with the device are the softwares that ultimately determine the iPad’s utility, like Morpholio's TracePro.

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Cite: Becky Quintal. "Architects and the New iPadPro: Should You Buy One?" 13 Dec 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/907619/architects-and-the-new-ipadpro-should-you-buy-one> ISSN 0719-8884

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