Hats off to the innovators who conceptualized, designed, and made Revit happen. You have changed the world! ▪ Huge thanks to all the faithful followers! Without you, Revit wouldn't be what it is today. ▪ Personal thanks to the grand masters Philippe Drouant and Phil Read for their invaluable help; to Simone Cappochin and Kubik Nemeth Vlkovic, who keep on doing beautiful architecture with Revit and are willing to share it with us; and to our friends, Martin Taurer, Paul Woddy, and Emmanuel Di Giacommo, for their contributions. To Matt, Nathan, Lira, Greg, Zachary, Jaap van der Weide, and so many other colleagues for their heroic effort to create the fantastic new Conceptual Design tools in Revit 2010 that are paving a path to a whole new working paradigm. Sincere thanks to all the hardworking developers, product designers, and quality assurance testers from the development team of Revit, for their dedication, passion, and love of Revit. ▪ We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to our friends, the architects who generously shared their work, allowing us to inspire you with it: Andrea Torre, Kubik Nemeth Vlkovic, Andrea Sader and Ines Magri; Simone Cappochin and A.U. Service; E. N. Raycroft; T. Castro; A. Blood; D. Belcher; RMJM Hillier; Gensler; Montealegre Beach Arquitectos Ltds; Mario Guttman, Miles Walker, Lee Miller, Julio Gonzalez, Luis Fernández de Ortega, and HOK; SPBR Architects; Mark Bassett; Matthew Hogan; Craig Barbieri; and the fantastic crew of Cut&Paste—the innovators of the Design Slam documented in the Project Gallery. ▪ And finally, thanks are due to our excellent support team at Sybex, who helped us develop and focus the content; Laurene Sorensen, for making a philosopher, a non-native English speaker, and a dyslexic look good in print; Liz Welch and Linda Recktenwald for making it grammatically correct; Liz Britten for keeping tabs on all the parts and pieces; and a special thanks to Willem Knibbe, for his willingness to go to bat for us and deal with our high-maintenance attitudes.