The individuals in our Hall of Fame have demonstrated significant efforts and contributions within the broader Archicad community. They have been chosen by a 5 member committee using a framework to determine eligibility. New inductees will be added each year in an effort to provide ongoing recognition within the community.

Inaugural 2023 Hall of Fame inductees

Frank Beister

Frank Beister

BIM Manager, Otto Wulff Bauunternehmung GmbH - Hamburg, Germany

Frank is an exceptional individual who has made an immense contribution to the Archicad community over the past two decades. He is an Archicad veteran, who started playing with Archicad in the 90s and became a beta tester in the early 2000s with Archicad 7. He is one of the GDL gurus in the Archicad Community. He started working in object development in 1995, and since then he has published a vast amount of information that he learned the hard way, to educate users about GDL.

Eugenio Fontan

Eugenio Fontan

BIM Director | Co-Founder, enzyme APD - Hong Kong

Eugenio is a registered BIM consultant by Graphisoft. Throughout his experience in international projects, he developed his skills as a BIM expert creating his own methodologies and design processes to develop projects using BIM from the early stage through their whole life cycle.

Heimo Mooslechner

Heimo Mooslechner

Teacher, HTBLuVA Salzburg - Salzburg, Austria

Heimo has contributed with over 500 posts on Community and is highly regarded by others, sitting in the top 10 most liked authors. His YouTube Channel has over 1,000 videos dedicated to Archicad and GDL object functionality.

James Murray

James Murray

Associate, Rill Architects - Bethesda, Maryland USA

An architecture graduate and presenter at conferences and user group meetings in multiple countries, James has used Archicad since version 5.1. He has been continuously helpful on Archicad chat groups, posting usage tips, workflows, custom library parts and more. His blog at OnLand.info, begun in 2003, continues to be an important resource for users worldwide.

David Nicholson-Cole

David Nicholson-Cole

former Course Director of M.Arch in Sustainable Tall Buildings, University of Nottingham

Founder of the ArchiCAD University series of Summer Schools in Nottingham 1998-2010 and Winter Schools in Austria 2003-2009. Writer of the 'GDL Cookbook' and other ArchiCAD-related publications 1998-2004, and globe-trotting teacher of GDL 1999-2007 with a bit of UK teaching since then.

Posthumously Inducted

Dwight Atkinson

Dwight Atkinson

Architect, Artist, Sculptor, Digital Illustrator and Author - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dwight is best known to the Archicad community for his over 7,000 posts on Archicad-Talk, his worldwide workshops, and his three books on creating meaningful imagery with Archicad: “Illustration in Archicad” (2002), “Lightworks in Archicad” (2005) and “The Atlantis Attitude” (2009). Dwight’s insight and advice go beyond any specific software. His general lessons about architectural illustration through composition, light, shadow, entourage, compositing and more are timeless.

Fabrizio Diodati

Fabrizio Diodati

former Director Customer Success, Graphisoft Italia

Recognized in Italy as the "GURU" of Archicad and the GDL, he has also been a point of reference in Italy as a trainer and developer of BIM objects. Among his most important projects are to be mentioned, in the early 2000s, the plugins contained in ARCHISUITE (Architerra, Archiforma, Archistair etc.) by Cigraph and which made it possible to expand the potential of Archicad by making up for many markets needs not only Italian.

Hall of fame committee

Djordje Grujic
Jorge Beneitez
Laszlo Nagy
Karl Ottenstein
Nathan Hildebrandt

Inductee criteria

  • The Hall of Fame Committee shall be comprised of 5 members from the Archicad User Community
  • Hall of Fame consideration will be conducted on an annual basis and an online event announcing the Hall of Fame admissions will be held in isolation or as part of another event.
  • The committee shall consider a candidate’s outstanding service and overall contribution to the international community in determining a candidate’s eligibility for induction into the Hall of Fame.
  • The number of years of community interaction shall only be a consideration and shall not be determinative in assessing a candidate’s eligibility.
  • A user or supplier involved with the community may be eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame.
  • Candidates shall be adjudged based on their overall contribution to the Archicad User Community as opposed to one specific aspect.
  • A member of the committee may be a candidate but shall not vote for his or her induction into the Hall of Fame.
  • For a candidate to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, at least 80% of the Hall of Fame Committee members must vote in favour of the candidate.
  • Cap of 5 nominees elevated each year, as the Hall of Fame event will be held on an annual basis.