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Didactical Integration of Analog and Digital Tools into Architectural Education
This paper describes the new syllabus of the course “Methods of representation” that has evolved in the first year of architectural study at our...
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Computer-Aided Design Tools that Adapt
This paper describes an approach that enables a computeraided design tool to learn conceptual knowledge as it is being used, and as a consequence...
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From Passive to Proactive Design Elements
Agent technology has been used as an organising mechanism for software systems that focus on modularity and autonomy. This paper presents two...
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Morphosis
In this paper, we introduce Morphosis: A Responsive Membrane, which physically responds to movement, light and sound interacting spatially and...
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Idea Hitchhiking in the Idea Association Process
Idea association is an important behavior to generate diverse ideas during the conceptual design stage. In the idea association process, the designer...
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Design Science Labs
The ever increasing complexity of architectural projects demands efficient tools to assist within their associated design processes. We present an...
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Automatic Product Color Design Using Genetic Searching
Color plays a key role in determining a consumer’s response to a product appearance. A gray-theory-based linguistic evaluation method and a...
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Puppeteering Architecture
This paper documents and analyzes a set of experimental prototype applications for interaction with 3D modeling software through body movements. The...
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Plastic Surgery in the Evolutionary Design of Spatial Form
This paper presents a methodology for producing good solutions for spatial form for non-routine design more efficiently. The methodology is based on...
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A Framework for the Design of Kinetic Façades
The particular requirements of kinetic façades are discussed in relation to a general model for future CAAD research – a 3D digital prototype based...
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Enablement or Restriction?
In this paper I present and reflect upon a five-year investigation of designing digital tools for designing in the area of architectural space grid...
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A debate from down-under: spatial political economy and urban design
Architecture, Urban design, and Urban Planning, have a coterminous existence as praxis, yet they remain both theoretically and professionally...
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Reduction Mechanisms Explored in Architectural Re-Design
Observation of the design process of an architect shows that, while building up an argumentation for taking a design decision, different mechanisms...
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Augmented Reality Meeting Table: a Novel Multi-User Interface for Architectural Design
Immersive virtual environments have received widespread attention as providing possible replacements for the media and systems that designers...
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‘Public realm’ as theatre: Bicester village and universal city walk
This is the second of two papers exploring the notion of hyperreality as an aspect of the design and consumption of post modern leisure environments....
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Quantum environments: urban design in the post-Cartesian paradigm
At the dawn of the Millennium, a radical paradigm shift is happening. A new world view is implied by the discoveries of quantum theory and the new...
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The Architectural Theory of William Morris
The period of William Morris’s public career, which lasted from 1877 to his death in 1896, was one of crisis in the British economy. The onset of the...
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W. R. Lethaby and the Fabians
Of all the disciples of Ruskin, W. R. Lethaby (1857–1931) is generally considered the most important in terms of architectural theory. Trained as an...
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