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Building Shanghai’s Dreamworld: Architects and Elite Ballroom Designs of the 1920s and 1930s
Using historical records from the period including newspapers and architectural journals, this paper examines seven ballrooms built in Shanghai...
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Generalized topology optimization for architectural design
In recent years, topology optimization has become a popular strategy for creating elegant and innovative forms for architectural design. However, the...
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The metaverse as opportunity for architecture and society: design drivers, core competencies
The thesis is that the metaverse will become a pervasive part of the future internet and will thus become a key arena within which the life of...
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Extracting a local pattern language: a case study of Khartoum’s City Centre
This paper conceptualises a method for exploring existing places and their architecture. Khartoum’s city centre (KCC), Sudan, has been selected as a...
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A tale of the new and the old: renovation of Yong’an Warehouse at Yangpu waterfront, Shanghai
The urban riverside space of Shanghai is transforming. How to renovate industrial heritage buildings to renew their vitality while retaining their...
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Sustainability and 3D concrete printing: identifying a need for a more holistic approach to assessing environmental impacts
This paper aims to identify the current status of research in 3D concrete printing (3DCP), locate the sustainability considerations relevant to these...
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Preserving the past or past preserving: sustaining the legacy of postmodern museum architecture
The publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1964 signaled the end of Modernism. The reality was that the modern movement had...
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Infiltration of Early Western Design Ideas (Prelude Before 1949)
From the end of the Qing Dynasty to 1949, China experienced leasing out of its territories as well as the chaos of internal and external wars. With...
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Urban Regeneration and Creating Urban Landscapes: Enhancing City Life Experiences in Lijiang
In urban design practices, the urban landscape is important in enhancing the cities’ livelihoods and spatial qualities. As part of memorable urban...
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A Study on the Research Methods Used in Modern Chinese Architectural Decoration Design
Modern China is a period of rapid change and staggered development of social ideology. The blending and collision of Chinese and Western cultures has...
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Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter Towards the Possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities
This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners,...
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Identifying disappeared historic buildings of port of Callao using georeferencing
The port of Callao is important for its varied historical and archaeological heritage, which includes several military buildings that were the main...
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Innovative design solutions for contemporary Tou-Kung based on topological optimisation
Tou-Kung, which is pronounced in Chinese and known as Bracket Set (Liang & Fairbank, A pictorial history of Chinese architecture, 1984), is a vital...
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The Right Distance. Forms of Representation for Resilient Communities
Representation can be treated as a code of communication, able to address different referents. The first set is made up of those we can call...
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Understanding of the settlements with coexisting water and earth under the background of climate change—the case of Liang Village in **yao County, China
Global climate change has caused general and serious damage to cultural heritage sites, and earthen settlements and buildings are particularly...
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Sense of Community and Spatial Agency: Key Elements of Resilient Communities
Currently, having resilient communities is the aim of many cities worldwide. Governments officials, urban designers, planners, architects,...
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Water Tower Home transformation: bottom-up urban regeneration through a reality TV show
The article examines Wutopia Lab’s transformation of the Water Tower Home ( shuita zhijia , also know as ‘House on the House’), a top-floor unit of a...
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Kampos, a Village Community on the Greek Island of Tinos
The village of Kampos, a place of vernacular architecture on the Cycladic island of Tinos in Greece, is of a great importance to me. This importance...