@facer said:
Therefore the work practices described in your observations will likely remain
in the future but in a diminishing number of practices and industries.
I'd like to disagree, though I cannot.
Currently it seems limitations in Software, are leading to the most sophisticated architectural practices being almost standardized.
For me the ideal solution is a mix between modelling and information:
Standardized basic solutions modelled in an automatic or semi automatic way with the help of software;
Leaving free time for the investigation of non standard solutions that humanize architecture;
Both of them would be valid aproaches for BIM and sketchup seems to be a good platform for that.
Information is key in BIM too, not only modeling, so the bridge between how a model is created in terms of geometry and what kind of information is needed to fully describe it and manage it is what stands out as hard to deal with in Sketchup.