The computer-aided design services Yousif Ghafari first offered Detroit-area architecture/engineering clients in the early 1980s seem rather primitive compared with the multidimensional modeling and visualization technology his company, Ghafari Associates, routinely uses today. Yet at the time, those manipulatable computer screen images represented the beginning of an industry-wide transformation, one in which expertise such as Ghafari’s would come to be highly valued.
Over the ensuing 30-plus years as Ghafari has expanded both its size and services, the firm has remained an early and eager adopter of new design technology, applying it to projects so complex that programming bugs unknown to the developer are revealed.