Cloud or Bust: Why U.S. Architects Are Racing to the Cloud
Over the past decade the American architecture studio has moved from plotters and local servers to browser tabs and virtual desktops. What began as a trickle of webbased file sharing is now a torrent of cloud adoption that is reshaping how homes are imagined, costed, and delivered. In 2024, about 70 % of U.S. architecture firms report using cloudhosted Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and more than 61 % say a cloud deployment strategy is now their default for new projects.