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The Electronic Design Studio
In four parts this book frames those issues and provides a diversity of perspectives on them.
Architecture in Digital Culture
This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture. Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes – machines, networks, and computation – the book begins by discussing transformations of the analogy between architecture and the machine since the early twentieth century, foregrounding questions about the relations between architecture, humans, machines, and the environment. It moves on to the city, to observe how big data and smart city sustainable management systems have transformed historical visions of...
Collaborative Construction Information Management
Most construction projects are large and costly. Collaborative working involves two or more stakeholders sharing their efforts and resources to complete the project more effectively and efficiently. Collaborative, integrative and multi-disciplinary teams can tackle the complex issues involved in creating a viable built environment. This tends to be looked at from three interrelated perspectives: the technological, organizational, and social; and of these the key issue is to improve productivity and enable innovation through the empowerment and motivation of people. This book provides insights for researchers and practitioners in the building and construction industry as well as graduate students, written by an international group of leading scholars and professionals into the potential use, development and limitations of current collaborative technologies and practices. Material is grouped into the themes of advanced technologies for collaborative working, virtual prototyping in design and construction, building information modelling, managing the collaborative processes, and human issues in collaborative working.
Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments
Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are multi-user virtual realities which actively support communication and co-operation. This book offers a comprehensive reference volume to the state-of-the-art in the area of design studies in CVEs. It is an excellent mix of contributions from over 25 leading researcher/experts in multiple disciplines from academia and industry, providing up-to-date insight into the current research topics in this field as well as the latest technological advancements and the best working examples. Many of these results and ideas are also applicable to other areas such as CVE for design education. Overall, this book serves as an excellent reference for postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners who need a comprehensive approach to study the design behaviours in CVEs. It is also a useful and informative source of materials for those interested in learning more on using/developing CVEs to support design and design collaboration.
Automation Based Creative Design - Research and Perspectives
Case-based design and creativity / Gerhard Schmitt -- Remembrance of things past : design precedents in libraries / Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman -- Modelling the representation of architectural design cases / Christian Kühn and Marcus Herzog -- The 98% solution / Frederick Jules -- The image and the model / Paul Quintrand -- The future of visual design representations in architecture / Alexander Koutamanis -- A multi-level primitive generic components model / L.K. Alberts, P.M. Wognum and N.J.I. Mars -- The pedagogical grammar / George Stiny -- Artifact grammars and architectural invention / William J. Mitchell -- The design of prismatic and crystalline building shapes with the help of computer techniques / Pieter Huybers -- System architecture for computer integration of design and construction knowledge / Charles M. Eastman, Scott C. Chase and Hisham H. Assal -- Integrated use of building design tools : results from the combine project / Godfried Augenbroe -- Computational support fo ...
Knowledge-based Computer-aided Architectural Design
This text contains reports by researchers working in the area of knowledge-based systems for supporting architectural design. The issues discussed concern the theories, methods and the systems implementing this research, as well as the role of KBCAAD within architectural design.
Advanced Architectural Design and Construction
Special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only.
The New Structuralism
Today the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies is breeding a new material practice in experimental architecture. The significant emphasis on the structuring logic of tectonics is resulting in a 'new structuralism' in design. In this pioneering publication, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and material ordering integrated through the application of materialisation and fabrication technologies. Providing the foundations for a new theory of structuring in architecture, the new structuralism has broad implications for the way we both conceive and undertake architectural design, as its im...
Evaluating and Predicting Design Performance
Presents an assortment of task-specific applications that draw upon the model of the designed artifact. Provides the designer and the knowledge CAD-based system with a variety of evaluative, simulative and tabulative measures of the artifact's expected perfomance.
