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Issue 9:2

Innovation

Deadline: January 15, 2025
Call For Papers

Innovation captures new ideas, methods, strategies, products, forms, designs, etc. Innovation is the action or process of innovating, introducing, or presenting novelties and modifying what is established by introducing new elements or forms. It is a change introduced to an existing product. Imaginative ideas include improvements that capture how components or processes are modified or configured in designs, systems, or domains, like building materials, data processing, digital fabrication, computation, history and theory of innovation. 

About TAD Journal
TAD Journal is a peer-­reviewed, international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology and its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design.
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5.2
Design Evaluation in Architecture Education with an Affordance-Based Approach Utilizing Non-Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Media
by Fauzan Alfi Agirachman & Michihiko Shinozaki
Virtual reality (VR) technology can help students conduct a design evaluation process on their architecture studio...
Design Evaluation in Architecture Education with an Affordance-Based Approach Utilizing Non-Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Media
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Research Methodologies
7.2
Prototypologies of Circularity 
by Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska & Joseph McGranahan
The concept of a circular economy represents a way to overcome the current linear financial system’s social,...
Prototypologies of Circularity 
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Op/Positions
7.1
Ecologies of Tectonics
by Anne Beim
We see increased attention to how buildings are built and expected to live over time, including the entire life...
Ecologies of Tectonics
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7.1
Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College, Oxfordshire
by Phillip Hudson
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) set up a competition in 2009 for the design of a new College Chapel...
Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College, Oxfordshire
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Re/Views
8.2
Large Scale Architectures: A Review of the Architecture of Generative AI
by Daniel Koehler
This review explores the architecture and implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on...
Large Scale Architectures: A Review of the Architecture of Generative AI
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Peer Review
6.1
Designing a Pavilion that Generates Electricity
by Yun Kyu Yi, Keunhyuk Jang, Andrew Chun-An Wei, Bhujon Kang & Manal Anis
This paper demonstrates a design method that integrates various computational tools such as Rhinoceros, the artificial...
Designing a Pavilion that Generates Electricity
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Peer Review
6.2
Introduction to the Multilevel Building System Integrated Timber Central Core
by Ferdinand Oswald, John Chapman & Qun Wang
This research objective is to investigate the viability of timber high-rise buildings with an integrated central...
Introduction to the Multilevel Building System Integrated Timber Central Core
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Op/Positions
7.2
Towards Layered Permanence in the Sustainable Design of Buildings 
by Mario Rinke
Among the approaches of circular construction, the reuse of buildings is the most desirable as it leaves a large...
Towards Layered Permanence in the Sustainable Design of Buildings 
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Peer Review
8.1
Developers Grappling with Flood Risks: Evaluating Boston’s Climate Resiliency Checklist
by Angela Loescher-Montal, Miho Mazereeuw & Kairos Shen
Ongoing waterfront development in risky areas across the globe raises the continued paradox between resilience...
Developers Grappling with Flood Risks: Evaluating Boston’s Climate Resiliency Checklist
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Peer Review
6.1
Neural Image Classifiers for Historical Building Elements and Typologies
by Andrew Witt & Eunu Kim
New technologies of machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) are opening fresh avenues to catalog and compare...
Neural Image Classifiers for Historical Building Elements and Typologies
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Peer Review
8.2
Tracing the Anima of Tuskegee Chapel
by Eugene Han
Inspired by a set of Paul Rudolph’s ‘energy drawings’ that describe various phenomenal dimensions in Mies’s...
Tracing the Anima of Tuskegee Chapel
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Peer Review
8.1
Containing Carbon: Assessing the Carbon Impacts of Repurposed Shipping-Container-Based Housing
by Robert L. Williams
Constructing habitable buildings from repurposed shipping containers is commonly seen as an inherently sustainable...
Containing Carbon: Assessing the Carbon Impacts of Repurposed Shipping-Container-Based Housing
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Re/Views
5.1
Methods: How We Invent and Research
by Andrzej Zarzycki (Associate Editor)
“[O]ur writing tools are also working on our thoughts” summarizes Friedrich Nietzsche’s experience using...
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Re/Views
6.2
Research Methods for Environmental Studies: A Social Science Approach
by Connie Svabo
Environmental studies address human interactions with the environment. Complex contemporary environmental issues...
Research Methods for Environmental Studies: A Social Science Approach
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Peer Review
7.1
Mapping Rectangles to Cylinders: Waste-Conscious Constructions of Curved Structural Surfaces
by Iman Fayyad
This research explores the generation of a novel syntax for architecture driven by the preserved proportions of...
Mapping Rectangles to Cylinders: Waste-Conscious Constructions of Curved Structural Surfaces
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Peer Review
7.2
The Ingenuity of Circularity 
by Timothy Adekunle & Lola Ben Alon
A “circular economy” or “circularity” model embodies reducing, reusing, and recycling principles1. This...
The Ingenuity of Circularity 
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Details+
5.1
Parallel Paths of Inquiry: Detailing for DFAB HOUSE
by Konrad Graser, Arash Adel, Marco Baur, Daniel Sanz Pont, Andreas Thoma
DFAB HOUSE, a multi‐technology demonstrator of digital fabrication in architecture, integrates six full‐scale...
Parallel Paths of Inquiry: Detailing for DFAB HOUSE
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Peer Review
6.1
From Efficiency to Exhaustion: Computer-Aided Architecture at the Madrid Calculation Center (1968–1973)
by Diana Cristobal Olave
This paper proposes the notion of exhaustion as an alternative paradigm to study postwar historiographies of computer-aided...
From Efficiency to Exhaustion: Computer-Aided Architecture at the Madrid Calculation Center (1968–1973)
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Re/Views
7.2
In Review: Assessing Mass Timber and the Circular Economy 
by Pete Kobelt & Matan Mayer
A growing interest in mass timber as a low-carbon substitute for other structural materials warrants an exploration...
In Review: Assessing Mass Timber and the Circular Economy 
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Op/Positions
5.1
Research Redux
by D. Michelle Addington
I was about three years into my doctoral studies at Harvard’s GSD when three questions, or more accurately, three...
Research Redux
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Peer Review
8.2
Deep Learning-based Segmentation of Thermal Images for Heat Loss Detection in Building Façade
by Ali Waqas & Mohamad T. Araji
Inspired by a set of Paul Rudolph’s ‘energy drawings’ that describe various phenomenal dimensions in Mies’s...
Deep Learning-based Segmentation of Thermal Images for Heat Loss Detection in Building Façade
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Re/Views
5.2
Autonomous Robotics in the AEC practice
by Alvise Simondetti, Nicholas Bachand, Aifric Delahunty, James Griffith & Julius Sustarevas
In recent years, technical development in robotics has been enhanced by leaps forward in artificial intelligence...
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Peer Review
5.2
Using Digital Human Models to Evaluate the Ergonomic Comfort of Interior Layouts and Furniture Design
by Yomna El-Ghazouly & Ahmed El Antably
ReDespite broad adoption of Digital Human Models (DHMs) in other disciplines, the use of ergonomics in interior...
Using Digital Human Models to Evaluate the Ergonomic Comfort of Interior Layouts and Furniture Design
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Re/Views
7.1
Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades
by William W. Braham
Existing research into computational methods to optimize material usage in timber building structures often results...
Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades
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Peer Review
7.2
Circular Formwork: Recycling of 3D Printed Thermoplastic Formwork for Concrete  
by Joris Burger, Ena Lloret-Fritschi, Marc Akermann, Daniel Schwendemann, Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler
Concrete construction is one of the largest producers of CO2 emissions and waste from discarded formwork. 3D printing...
Circular Formwork: Recycling of 3D Printed Thermoplastic Formwork for Concrete  
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Re/Views
6.1
Processing in Progress: A Benchmark Analysis of Photogrammetry Applications for Digital Architectural Documentation
by Rob Kesack
Since its initial development in the 1820s, photography revolutionized the way people looked at and remembered...
Processing in Progress: A Benchmark Analysis of Photogrammetry Applications for Digital Architectural Documentation
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Details+
7.1
TK Test Tower in Rottweil or How a Membrane Envelope Saves Weight
by Werner Sobek & Holger Hinz
Standing at approximately 246 m (807.08 ft.), the ThyssenKrupp elevator company’s Test Tower in the town of...
TK Test Tower in Rottweil or How a Membrane Envelope Saves Weight
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Research Methodologies
6.2
Space Architecture in Microgravity: TESSERAE Project for Large Scale Space Structures
by Ariel Ekblaw
NASA and international partners are planning a crewed return to the lunar surface in this decade, with the explicit...
Space Architecture in Microgravity: TESSERAE Project for Large Scale Space Structures
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Op/Positions
5.1
Validating an Emerging Design Area through Industry‐Academia Research Partnerships
by Amy Seif Hattan
Collaborative research between the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry and academia can...
Validating an Emerging Design Area through Industry‐Academia Research Partnerships
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Re/Views
6.2
Skydio 2+ Enterprise Kit with 3D Scan
by Malcolm Williamson
Sci-fi writers of the last century have foretold and built anticipation for robots that will perform tasks for...
Skydio 2+ Enterprise Kit with 3D Scan
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Peer Review
8.2
Low-Cost IoT-based Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
by Hanin Othman, Rahman Azari & Tamy Guimarães
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is gaining significant interest as an essential determinant of human health, productivity,...
Low-Cost IoT-based Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
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Research Methodologies
7.2
Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings 
by Thomas Bryans, Emily Berwyn, Peter Swallow & Colin Rose
Vacant lots exist in every city, and like land everywhere they carry inherent potential—socially, economically,...
Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings 
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Research Methodologies
5.1
Post Occupancy Evaluation in Architectural Education and Practice
by Galen Cranz, Lusi Morhayim, Georgia Lindsay, Johann (Hans) Sagan
Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is a research method that examines how buildings function; when the functions include...
Post Occupancy Evaluation in Architectural Education and Practice
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Peer Review
7.1
Fabric Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth: Four-Dimensional Wall Systems
by Charlie O’Geen & Catherine Page Harris
This paper presents prototype design research into the drying, shrinkage, and cracking of unstabilized fabric-formed...
Fabric Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth: Four-Dimensional Wall Systems
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Peer Review
7.2
Automatic Generation of Architectural Plans with Machine Learning
by Reza Babakhani
The fact that computer software has no intuition about the design process is the main reason not to outsource that...
Automatic Generation of Architectural Plans with Machine Learning
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Op/Positions
5.2
Recognizing Place-Intelligence in Historic Environments for Sustainable Futures
by Jyoti Hosagrahar
Local knowledge is commonly understood as the accumulated knowledge of communities with long histories that have...
Recognizing Place-Intelligence in Historic Environments for Sustainable Futures
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Editorial
6.2
Engineering Architecture
by Winifred Elysse Newman
It seems odd or at least disconcerting that until French engineer and physicist Charles-Augustin Coulomb imparted...
Engineering Architecture
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Peer Review
6.2
Evolution of Modeling for Lightweight Structures: Creating the Munich Olympic Stadium Roof (1967–72)
by Rob Whitehead
The experimental structural qualities of the Munich Olympic Stadium roof compelled formative innovations in modeling...
Evolution of Modeling for Lightweight Structures: Creating the Munich Olympic Stadium Roof (1967–72)
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Details+
7.1
Löyly Sauna
by Ville Hara & Anu Puustinen
Löyly sauna’s unique timber cladding is designed with circular economy principles using invaluable small-scale...
Löyly Sauna
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Editorial
5.2
Scaling Intelligence
by Gregory Luhan (Issue Editor)
Intelligence without action is inert. As the solicited contributions to this volume demonstrate, actionable intelligence...
Scaling Intelligence
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Peer Review
6.1
Decoding the Architectural Genome: Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in Design
by Mohammad Makki, Diego Navarro-Mateu & Milad Showkatbakhsh
The application of population-based optimization algorithms in design is heavily driven by the translation and...
Decoding the Architectural Genome: Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in Design
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Re/Views
5.2
Gaming Engines: Unity, Unreal, and Interactive 3D Spaces
by Christopher Morse
Game engines such as Unity 3D and Unreal Engine have emerged as valuable architectural practice and research tools...
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Details+
6.2
Automation in the Field: SurveyLink
by James Coleman, Nathan Barnes & Tim Wilson
Improvements in design and engineering software expand architectural possibilities, leading to increased complexity....
Automation in the Field: SurveyLink
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Research Methodologies
5.2
Internet of Construction: Research Methods for Practical Relevance in Construction
by Lukas Kirner, Elisa Lublasser & Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)-funded research “Internet of Construction” (IoC)...
Internet of Construction: Research Methods for Practical Relevance in Construction
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Peer Review
5.1
A Sound Approach to Concrete: Transforming Concrete Through Shape and Porosity for Acoustical Reflection, Diffusion, and Absorption
by Daniel Butko
The shape, interior volume, and materiality of the built environment influence occupant perception of sound. Placement...
A Sound Approach to Concrete: Transforming Concrete Through Shape and Porosity for Acoustical Reflection, Diffusion, and Absorption
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Re/Views
5.1
Control or Affect? The Paradox of 3D‐Printed Wood
by Blaine Brownell
As one of the oldest and most pervasive building materials, wood is so commonplace that its unique qualities or...
Control or Affect? The Paradox of 3D‐Printed Wood
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Research Methodologies
8.1
Enabling a Future-Focused Practice in an Uncertain Age
by Anya Domlesky
Humans face an unprecedented challenge in scope, time, and scale when considering climate change. In the design...
Enabling a Future-Focused Practice in an Uncertain Age
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Peer Review
8.2
Integration of Robotics and Computer Vision for Responsive and Autonomous Bricklaying in Construction 
by Adam Fingrut, Sevgi Altun & Yangzhi Li
This paper presents an approach to automating bricklaying processes by integrating robotics and computer vision...
Integration of Robotics and Computer Vision for Responsive and Autonomous Bricklaying in Construction 
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Peer Review
8.1
Co-Innovating for Integrated Research, Teaching, and Outreach in Sea Level Rise Adaptation
by Wendy Meguro
Approximately 680 million people live in low-lying coastal regions susceptible to flooding (IPCC 2019), and architects...
Co-Innovating for Integrated Research, Teaching, and Outreach in Sea Level Rise Adaptation
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Peer Review
5.2
Predictive Information Modeling: Machine Learning Strategies for Material Uncertainty
by Vasiliki Fragkia, Isak Worre Foged & Anke Pasold
This article presents a new design framework for the specification and prototyping of geometrically and behaviorally...
Predictive Information Modeling: Machine Learning Strategies for Material Uncertainty
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Op/Positions
6.1
Digital Technology and Architecture: Towards a Symmetrical Approach
by Antoine Picon
Should we take technology as an external factor impacting design literally from the outside? For the past 50 years,...
Digital Technology and Architecture: Towards a Symmetrical Approach
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Peer Review
5.1
Open III: Call for Papers
by Winifred Elysse Newman (Issue Editor)
Research methods is a developing area of interest in the built environment and OPEN to discussion. The concept...
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Op/Positions
5.2
From Smart-Only Cities Towards Humane and Cooperative Hybrid Cities
by Norbert A. Streitz
Our working and living environments are increasingly determined by what I call the “Smart-Everything” Paradigm...
From Smart-Only Cities Towards Humane and Cooperative Hybrid Cities
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Peer Review
7.2
Comparing Design Features of Campus Buildings with Adaptation/Demolition Outcomes 
by Anna K. Becker, Brandon E. Ross & Dustin Albright
Adaptable buildings are a vital part of circularity in the built environment. With long-term owners, defined sustainability...
Comparing Design Features of Campus Buildings with Adaptation/Demolition Outcomes 
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Peer Review
7.2
Circular Economy in Informal Settlements 
by Jota Samper & Erika Andrade
Applying the circular economy (CE) in practice continues to challenge environmental design. Studies regarding the...
Circular Economy in Informal Settlements 
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Op/Positions
7.2
Research into Practice: Tying Two Ends of a String Together
by Andrea Klinge
The disciplines of architecture and, even more so, civil engineering have always held an inherent research approach....
Research into Practice: Tying Two Ends of a String Together
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Peer Review
7.1
UNLOG: A Deployable, Lightweight, and Bending-Active Timber Construction Method
by Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic & Lawson Spencer
UNLOG is a lightweight and easily deployable timber framing method that utilizes robotic kerfing techniques to...
UNLOG: A Deployable, Lightweight, and Bending-Active Timber Construction Method
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Peer Review
7.2
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) of Standardized Modular Wood Components
by Yangzhi Li, Boyuan Yu, Adam Fingrut & Jingwei Li
The challenges posed by urbanization and the linear product model of “obtain-consume-abolish” has led to irreversible...
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) of Standardized Modular Wood Components
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Details+
7.1
The HiLo Integrated Floor: Reviewing the Relation Between Structural and Environmental Systems
by Arno Schlueter
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) set up a competition in 2009 for the design of a new College Chapel...
The HiLo Integrated Floor: Reviewing the Relation Between Structural and Environmental Systems
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Re/Views
5.1
Material Alignments
by Maria Paz Gutierrez
Advances in computation have fomented a new era of material and building technology invention in architecture....
Material Alignments
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Editorial
5.2
Reflections on Five Years of TAD
by Caryn Brause, Chris Ford, Chad Kraus, Gregory Luhan, Scott Murray, Winifred Elysse Newman, Clare Olsen, Jeana Ripple, Anne-Catrin Schultz, Marci Uihlein, Julian Wang & Andrzej Zarzycki
As TAD approaches its five-year anniversary, the editorial board reflects on the state of the journal, its objectives,...
Reflections on Five Years of TAD
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7.2
The Resource Rows 
by Catherine Langer
The growing urbanization across many parts of the world requires prolific building materials with significant environmental...
The Resource Rows 
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Peer Review
6.1
Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2
by Samuel Johnson, Mitesh Dixit, Lawry Boyer & Stephen Melville
In this project, three drawings for a horizontal skyscraper by El Lissitzky are analyzed and reconstructed using...
Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2
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Peer Review
6.1
Assembling the Assembler: Reanimating the “Lost” Motion Machine of Wachsmann, Bollinger, and Mendoza
by Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer & Esther Obonyo
In the late 1960s, Konrad Wachsmann moved to the University of Southern California to begin the Building Research...
Assembling the Assembler: Reanimating the “Lost” Motion Machine of Wachsmann, Bollinger, and Mendoza
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Call for Papers
6.2
ENGINEERING: Call for Papers
by Chris Ford
Just as developing an ability to design is not exclusive to designers, neither is the ability to engineer within...
ENGINEERING: Call for Papers
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Peer Review
5.1
Evaluating Energy Targets and Efficiency Measures in Multifamily Subtropical Buildings through Automated Simulation
by Wendy Meguro, Elliot J. Glassman
Building operation accounts for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions. Hawaii is committed to...
Evaluating Energy Targets and Efficiency Measures in Multifamily Subtropical Buildings through Automated Simulation
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Peer Review
6.2
Mies’s Teaching Laboratory: From Convention Hall to McCormick Place
by Zaida Garcia-Requejo & Kristin Jones
The Convention Hall in Chicago was the largest structure ever proposed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and demonstrated...
Mies’s Teaching Laboratory: From Convention Hall to McCormick Place
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Editorial
6.2
Changing Perspectives: Bridging Design and Engineering in Architectural Research
by Anne-Catrin Schultz & Julian Wang
Nowadays, the design process for a building is increasingly difficult to define as it may involve innovative material...
Changing Perspectives: Bridging Design and Engineering in Architectural Research
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Op/Positions
8.2
Repairing Code, Craft, and Computation
by Vernelle A. A. Noel
My architecture and computational design work examines craft and embodied practices, technological practices, and...
Repairing Code, Craft, and Computation
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Editorial/Introduction
8.2
Translations from Coding to Reality 
by Winifred Elysse Newman
Starting in the middle, maybe with the movie The Matrix (1999), coding became an everyday thought problem. The...
Translations from Coding to Reality 
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Peer Review
7.1
Tectonics and the Illogic of Durability for Earthen Structures
by Mahan Motalebi & Marcus Shaffer
Incorporating the process of ecological decay into architectural design acknowledges the dynamic lifecycle of materials...
Tectonics and the Illogic of Durability for Earthen Structures
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Peer Review
8.2
A-legal Architecture: Ordinances and Subdivided Units in Hong Kong 
by Kachun Alex Wong
This article has two focuses—first, it goes through the wide-ranging architectural literature that attempts to...
A-legal Architecture: Ordinances and Subdivided Units in Hong Kong 
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Peer Review
5.1
AutoFrame: A Novel Procedure to Auto-Convert Architectural Massing Models into Structural Simulation Models to Streamline Embodied- and Operational-Carbon Assessment and Daylight Evaluation in Early Design
by Katharina Kral
Sustainability and material efficiency are essential considerations in architecture. However, they are often evaluated...
AutoFrame: A Novel Procedure to Auto-Convert Architectural Massing Models into Structural Simulation Models to Streamline Embodied- and Operational-Carbon Assessment and Daylight Evaluation in Early Design
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Peer Review
8.2
Flood Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Districts Using Improved First-Floor Elevation Data
by Nicholas Diaz & Brent R. Fortenberry
Obtaining accurate first-floor elevation (FFE) data within Galveston historic districts is limited or nonexistent...
Flood Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Districts Using Improved First-Floor Elevation Data
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Details+
8.2
The Twist: Blending Art with Architecture and Engineering 
by Alessandro Margnelli & Edoardo Tibuzzi
The Twist stands in Norway’s Kistefos Museum complex, where nature and art converge, a formidable testament to...
The Twist: Blending Art with Architecture and Engineering 
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Op/Positions
8.1
The Post-Pandemic Climate
by Thomas Fisher
Pandemics have the effect of accelerating humanity into the future, forcing us to confront unaddressed inequities...
The Post-Pandemic Climate
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Research Methodologies
6.2
Critical Modeling
by Nick Förster & Ivan Bratoev
The Leonhard Obermeyer Center (LOC) at the Technical University of Munich represents a research network dedicated...
Critical Modeling
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Editorial/Introduction
7.1
Tectonics in Equipoise
by Winifred Elysse Newman
More than physical but less than ephemeral might be an excellent way to begin. Defining tectonics as the “physical...
Tectonics in Equipoise
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Op/Positions
6.1
Technologies and Stewardship of a Native American City
by Sarah Baires
Archaeology’s legacy lies with the unfettered examination of past peoples and their built landscapes. Explorer/scholars,...
Technologies and Stewardship of a Native American City
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Peer Review
8.1
Application of Topology Optimization as a Form-Finding Method in Architectural Design, A Case Study: Pardisan Urban Footbridge
by Hamideh Soroush, Roham Afghani Khoraskani, Hamid Aliakbarlou & Mohammadreza Hafezi
This paper proposes a framework to integrate Topology Optimization (TO) techniques into the architectural design...
Application of Topology Optimization as a Form-Finding Method in Architectural Design, A Case Study: Pardisan Urban Footbridge
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Re/Views
8.1
Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change
by Peter Aeschbacher
In the seventeenth century, English architecture enthusiasts began an enduring tradition of foraying abroad to...
Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change
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Peer Review
8.1
Concrete and Development: Context-driven Formwork Design for Scalable, Accessible and Low-carbon Concrete Structures
by Mohamed A. Ismail, Nebyu S. Haile, Abigail M. Sefah, Yiqing Wang & Caitlin T. Mueller
Society is building at an unprecedented rate: building stock will need to double by 2060 (UNEP 2021), adding over...
Concrete and Development: Context-driven Formwork Design for Scalable, Accessible and Low-carbon Concrete Structures
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Editorial
5.2
The Anthropomorphism of Intelligence
by Anne-Catrin Schultz (Associate Editor) & Andrzej Zarzycki (Associate Editor)
The call for papers for this issue embraced the broad nature of intelligence, its multiple frameworks and its impact...
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Research Methodologies
8.2
Drawn Together: Coding and Curating Architectural Drawing After Computation
by Adam Marcus & Andrew Kudless
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, John Maeda, computer scientist and founder of the Aesthetics and Computation...
Drawn Together: Coding and Curating Architectural Drawing After Computation
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Re/Views
6.2
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
by Michael Garrison
Paul Hawken’s contributions, ranging from a successful business background as a maker of quality landscape tools...
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
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Peer Review
5.2
On GANs, NLP and Architecture: Combining Human and Machine Intelligences for the Generation and Evaluation of Meaningful Designs
by Jeffrey Huang, Mikhael Johanes, Frederick Chando Kim, Christina Doumpioti & Georg-Christoph Holz
Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) hold considerable promise in architecture, especially...
On GANs, NLP and Architecture: Combining Human and Machine Intelligences for the Generation and Evaluation of Meaningful Designs
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Peer Review
7.2
Acoustic Tectonics 
by Isak Worre Foged
This paper presents the idea, investigation, and proposition of acoustic tectonics in architecture. The research...
Acoustic Tectonics 
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Op/Positions
7.2
Materials as Design Tool: Digital Fabrication Strategies for Sustainable Architecture 
by Hanaa Dahy
The building industry is responsible for consuming almost 45% of all extracted resources and producing nearly 40%...
Materials as Design Tool: Digital Fabrication Strategies for Sustainable Architecture 
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Peer Review
8.2
Agritecture: A Transcalar Organic Coding Framework for Soil as a Biomaterial
by Alireza Zamani Samani & DK Osseo-Asare
Both agriculture and architecture often utilize earth as a primary medium of production. Farmwork’s intricacies...
Agritecture: A Transcalar Organic Coding Framework for Soil as a Biomaterial
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Op/Positions
8.2
Code of Ethics 
by Peggy Deamer
Codes in architecture are not just technical; they are ideological. This statement is valid for regulations for...
Code of Ethics 
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Editorial/Introduction
8.1
Climate: The Path Forward
by Hazem Rashed-Ali
Climate change is one of the most critical and complex challenges facing communities worldwide. Recent reports...
Climate: The Path Forward
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Peer Review
6.1
Algorithmic Pathways and the Continuing Narratives of the Twentieth Century
by Julian Wang & Anne-Catrin Schultz
“Histories” uncovers the diverse narratives in architecture technology, history, and culture, looking for unexpected...
Algorithmic Pathways and the Continuing Narratives of the Twentieth Century
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Research Methodologies
6.2
Workflows for Advanced Manufacturing in Design
by Kenneth J. Tracy, Ying Ti Tan, Carlos Bañón & Low Hong Yee
The digitization and automation of design and manufacturing present a rich potential for overlaps between seemingly...
Workflows for Advanced Manufacturing in Design
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Peer Review
8.2
GreenPlotter: An AI-Driven Low-Carbon Design Algorithm for Land Partitioning and Sustainable Urban Development
by Yasin Delavar, Amirhossein Delavar, Kianoush Suzanchi & Karla Saldaña Ochoa
Urbanization destroys green areas, prompting the need for eco-friendly policies. This study proposes “GreenPlotter,”...
GreenPlotter: An AI-Driven Low-Carbon Design Algorithm for Land Partitioning and Sustainable Urban Development
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Editorial
6.2
Architecting
by Chris Ford
Since its inaugural issue in 2017, Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) has pursued its editorial...
Architecting
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Editorial
5.2
The Intelligence of Architectural Research
by Marci S. Uihlein (Executive Editor)
The three-volume The Handbook for Artificial Intelligence, proposed in 1975 and finally published in 1981, was...
The Intelligence of Architectural Research
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Re/Views
5.1
On: Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers
by William W. Braham
The case study is such a ubiquitous and seemingly natural form of inquiry in architecture that it can be surprising...
On: Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers
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Peer Review
6.2
Multimaterial Knit Skins: A Design-to-Fabrication Workflow for Mass Customized Freeform Membrane Panels
by Ying Yi Tan, Pei Zhi Chia, Yu Han Quek, Kenneth Joseph Tracy & Christine Yogiaman
This paper presents a design-to-fabrication workflow to customize multimaterial CNC knitted textiles to form nonstandardized...
Multimaterial Knit Skins: A Design-to-Fabrication Workflow for Mass Customized Freeform Membrane Panels
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Op/Positions
6.2
Pivoting to Infrastructure: The Fusion of Architecture and Engineering
by James Hulme, Jim Eyre, Stafford Critchlow & Sebastien Ricard
Founded in London, WilkinsonEyre is an architectural practice closely associated with the parallel engineering...
Pivoting to Infrastructure: The Fusion of Architecture and Engineering
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Research Methodologies
5.1
An Argument Framework for Ecological Psychology and Architecture Design
by Christopher C. Pagano, Brian Day, Leah S. Hartman
Integral to the scientific process are theoretical frameworks that motivate specific research questions and empirical...
An Argument Framework for Ecological Psychology and Architecture Design
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Research Methodologies
Notes from the Valley of Death: A Case for Entrepreneurship in Architecture
by Doris Sung
Rather than serve individual clients, architects can pursue an entrepreneurial path by identifying current problems...
Notes from the Valley of Death: A Case for Entrepreneurship in Architecture
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7.1
The Shed: An Intersection of Disciplines
by Charles Berman
The Shed is a nonprofit cultural organization that commissions, develops, and presents original works of art across...
The Shed: An Intersection of Disciplines
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Re/Views
5.2
BIM: Enhancing Workflows with Add-Ins
by Karen Kensek
The number of software programs available for use by designers, engineers, and contractors in the building industry...
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Peer Review
6.2
Digital Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage: Samara House
by Junhao Li, Huzefa Jawadwala, Annika Pan, JungHo Jeon, Yi-Chun Lin, Meghdad Hasheminasab, Hongxi Yin, Ayman Habib, Hubo Cai & Ming Qu
Samara House, built in 1956 with its surrounding landscape, is one of the National Historic Landmarks for its unique...
Digital Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage: Samara House
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Peer Review
7.1
Topology Optimization: A Case Study of Precast Panels
by Niloufar Emami
This research hypothesizes that designers can use engineering problem-solving tools such as topology optimization...
Topology Optimization: A Case Study of Precast Panels
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Research Methodologies
6.1
Impact of Digital Technologies on Historic Preservation Research at Multiple Scales
by Jon Marcoux & Amalia Leifeste
The last decade has seen a relatively quiet revolution happening within historic preservation. The field experienced...
Impact of Digital Technologies on Historic Preservation Research at Multiple Scales
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Peer Review
7.2
Data Visualization for a Circular Economy: Designing a Web Application for Sustainable Housing 
by Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman, Mojtaba Parsaee & Ava Klein
An impediment to effective Circular Economy (CE) implementation in residential buildings is the lack of standardized...
Data Visualization for a Circular Economy: Designing a Web Application for Sustainable Housing 
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Op/Positions
6.2
Prolegomena to Computational Design
by Ramesh Krishnamurti
In 1989, I left Scotland for the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture to help revamp the graduate program in...
Prolegomena to Computational Design
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Peer Review
5.2
Integrating Mobile Eye-Tracking and VSLAM for Recording Spatial Gaze in Works of Art and Architecture
by Eugene Han
This paper proposes a method for spatial eye-tracking for use with three-dimensional objects and environments....
Integrating Mobile Eye-Tracking and VSLAM for Recording Spatial Gaze in Works of Art and Architecture
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Re/Views
8.1
In Review: Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
by Pravin Bhiwapurkar
Paul Hawken presents the concept of regeneration and actions to revitalize and restore the natural ecosystem to...
In Review: Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
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Peer Review
7.2
Integrative Structural Design of Nonstandard Building Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Industry 
by Marta Gil Pérez & Jan Knippers
The utilization in architecture of computational design and digital fabrication, coupled with the exploration of...
Integrative Structural Design of Nonstandard Building Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Industry 
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Op/Positions
8.2
The Geo-Scopic Drive: How Codes Bridge Architecture, Media, and Design
by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
In the decades after World War II, the term “code,” loosely indexed to fields like cybernetics and information...
The Geo-Scopic Drive: How Codes Bridge Architecture, Media, and Design
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Peer Review
8.1
Predictive Model for Optimal Growth and Benefits of Exterior Building-Integrated Vegetation
by Keith Van de Riet & Eiman Graiz
Vegetated surfaces in urban environments have the potential to improve building energy performance, reduce urban...
Predictive Model for Optimal Growth and Benefits of Exterior Building-Integrated Vegetation
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Peer Review
8.1
Advancing Applications for Artificial-Intelligence-Supported Ambient Control in the Built Environment
by Henriette Bier, Arwin Hidding, Seyran Khademi, Casper van Engelenbrug, Hamed Alavi & Sailin Zhong
Ambient intelligence (AmI) relying on electronic devices employing information and communication technology (ICT)...
Advancing Applications for Artificial-Intelligence-Supported Ambient Control in the Built Environment
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7.1
Glazed Terracotta-Based Ceramic Façades
by Frans can Vuure, Filippo Lodi, Roman Kristesiashvili, Nick Marks & Harlen Miller
Attracted by the inherent weathered aesthetic and reflective properties, and the allure of the imperfections found...
Glazed Terracotta-Based Ceramic Façades
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Op/Positions
6.2
Autonomous Futures: Implications for Smart Cities
by Wendy Ju & Sharon Yavo-Ayalon
As researchers studying how to design human interaction with automation, we are frequently asked to prognosticate...
Autonomous Futures: Implications for Smart Cities
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Peer Review
7.2
Wild Wood Gridshells: Mixed-Reality Construction of Nonstandard Wood
by Tim Cousin, Latifa Alkhayat, Natalie Pearl, Christopher B. Dewart & Caitlin Mueller
Concrete construction is one of the largest producers of CO2 emissions and waste from discarded formwork. 3D printing...
Wild Wood Gridshells: Mixed-Reality Construction of Nonstandard Wood
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Editorial
6.1
Building the Historical Record
by Scott Murray
As new architectural research is conducted in universities, laboratories, and practices, and subsequently disseminated...
Building the Historical Record
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Peer Review
5.1
Building Integrated Evaporative Cooling Utilizing Pervious Concrete
by Alexander Timmer
This research proposes an integrated building evaporative cooling assembly using pervious concrete acting as a...
Building Integrated Evaporative Cooling Utilizing Pervious Concrete
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Editorial/Introduction
8.1
Climate Changes
by Winifred Elysse Newman
Climate binds us. Our macroenvironment is now a legal and social contract in the form of the Paris Agreement, also...
Climate Changes
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Editorial/Introduction
8.1
Climate: From Critical Technologies to Active Agencies
by Lola Ben-Alon & Dimitris Papanikolaou
Building technologies that approach climate issues are never objective, neutral, or isolated. Like most technological...
Climate: From Critical Technologies to Active Agencies
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Research Methodologies
5.2
Undertaking Research with Humans within Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Multimodal Elderly Care Systems
by Jim Tørresen
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become widespread in recent years and made tremendous progress thanks to automated...
Undertaking Research with Humans within Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Multimodal Elderly Care Systems
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Re/Views
5.2
Comparing Sensor Solutions in Practice: Philips Interact and Siemens Enlighted
by Peter Kerr
ReDespitToday’s buildings contain a significant amount of technology with which we interact. This interaction...
Comparing Sensor Solutions in Practice: Philips Interact and Siemens Enlighted
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Peer Review
8.1
Daylighting Glare and Design for Visual Comfort 
by Tasbeeh Alaqtum, Altaf Engineer & Colby Moeller
Daylighting and glare simulation provide architecture students, professionals, and researchers with the knowledge...
Daylighting Glare and Design for Visual Comfort 
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Editorial/Introduction
8.2
Variegated Coding 
by Theodora Vardouli
In her chapter section titled “Controlling Code,” media and communication scholar Wendy Chun offers a pithy...
Variegated Coding 
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Editorial
6.1
History’s Modus Operandi
by Winifred Elysse Newman
A little history about histories. It isn’t until the eighteen-century German philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel that...
History’s Modus Operandi
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Peer Review
8.2
Virtual Reconstruction Applications to Support the Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Two Case Studies of Temple Sites in Qufu and Beijing 
by Jin Liu
In ancient China, the Confucius temple was a place to worship and spread Confucianism. Nowadays, the renovations...
Virtual Reconstruction Applications to Support the Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Two Case Studies of Temple Sites in Qufu and Beijing 
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Re/Views
6.1
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning
by Gabrielle Brainard
The history of modern architecture is well-worn territory. But what if we could upend its familiar narratives to...
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning
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Editorial/Introduction
7.2
Sustain This
by Winifred Elysse Newman
How should we discuss the most pressing issue: saving our home world? Is it a matter of sustainable resilience...
Sustain This
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Peer Review
8.1
Evaluating Climate and Community Health Care Infection Risks through Computational Predesign 
by Lisa Sundahl Platt & Ali Mahmoudi
This study highlights the value of computational modeling in health care infection prevention planning, especially...
Evaluating Climate and Community Health Care Infection Risks through Computational Predesign 
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Peer Review
8.2
Integrating Participatory Filmmaking in Architectural CGI in Postoccupancy Evaluation 
by Minna Sunikka-Blank, Janina Schupp & Jonathan Weston
Our research enriches postoccupancy evaluation (POE) methods in low-income housing in the Global South by integrating...
Integrating Participatory Filmmaking in Architectural CGI in Postoccupancy Evaluation 
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Call for Papers
5.2
Intelligence: Call for Papers
by Gregory Luhan (Issue Editor)
The Gemising results in the enhancement of productivity in construction have already beenIn 2010 and 2011, Christchurch,...
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Peer Review
8.2
Codes and Coding
by Patricia Kio & Dimitris Papanikolaou
Codes negotiate the bounds of what buildings and cities should be, while coding encompasses possibilities that...
Codes and Coding
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Peer Review
5.1
Molding Liquid Stone: A Computational and Experimental Mixed‐Method Study of 3D Print Formwork for Interlocking Concrete Modules
by Niloufar Emami
With bespoke fabrication on one end, and mass production on the other end of the fabrication spectrum, this study...
Molding Liquid Stone: A Computational and Experimental Mixed‐Method Study of 3D Print Formwork for Interlocking Concrete Modules
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Peer Review
7.1
The Performance of Tectonics
by Timothy Adekunle & Matan Mayer
This issue’s call for papers invited authors to revisit and reshape a decades-long debate given emerging contemporary...
The Performance of Tectonics
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Editorial/Introduction
7.2
Circularity at Scale 
by Matan Mayer
When a newly developed technology to carry passengers vertically on an ascending platform between floors in buildings...
Circularity at Scale 
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Op/Positions
8.1
Views from the Outside 
by Pedar Ankar, Marty Matlock, Malkit Shoshan & Hazem Rashed-Ali
Climate change is a critical challenge facing our communities. Studies conducted by IPCC and other entities continue...
Views from the Outside 
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Research Methodologies
6.2
Digital Data Fostering University Campus Regenerative Design
by Jose Kos, James Miyamoto, Camila Mangrich & Luis Henrique Pavan
The Urban Ecology Lab (Laboratorio de Ecologia Urbana—LEUr) originated during the Brazilian entry into the 2012...
Digital Data Fostering University Campus Regenerative Design
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Editorial
7.1
Architectural Tectonics in the Age of Climate Crisis, Social Change and Digital Fabrication
by Anne-Catrin Schultz
Heinrich Wölfflin’s voice reflects ideals of art historical discourse of the early twentieth century. The debate...
Architectural Tectonics in the Age of Climate Crisis, Social Change and Digital Fabrication
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Peer Review
8.1
Y02 as Climate Praxis 
by Richard L. Hindle
This article introduces the recently adopted Y02 patent classification scheme, covering the broader cross-sectoral...
Y02 as Climate Praxis 
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Peer Review
8.1
Neural Networks for Monitoring Microalgae Biomass in Building Façades
by Adham M. Elmalky & Mohamad T. Araji
The substantial impact of buildings on CO2 emissions and climate change highlights the urgent need to adopt sustainable...
Neural Networks for Monitoring Microalgae Biomass in Building Façades
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Op/Positions
7.1
The Long Wait for the Inevitable: Metanarratives of Construction
by Edward R. Ford
What is the relationship between the historical events in Figure 1? The timeline contains a prophecy and a...
The Long Wait for the Inevitable: Metanarratives of Construction
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Op/Positions
6.1
Digital Techniques in Historic Preservation
by Rachel L. Will
The field of historic preservation constantly seeks new ways to document, assess, and interpret existing landmark...
Digital Techniques in Historic Preservation
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Peer Review
7.1
Synergetic Optimization of Timber Structures and Space
by Johannes van der Wielen & Hans-Christian Wilhelm
Existing research into computational methods to optimize material usage in timber building structures often results...
Synergetic Optimization of Timber Structures and Space
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5.2
The Static and Dynamic Interface: Mass Timber Rocking Wall Resilience
by Jonathan Heppner & Thomas Robinson
The Gemising results in the enhancement of productivity in construction have already beenIn 2010 and 2011, Christchurch,...
The Static and Dynamic Interface: Mass Timber Rocking Wall Resilience
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Op/Positions
7.2
The Removal Chain & Sentient Life Cycles
by Leonard Schrage, Fábio Duarte & Carlo Ratti
As our cities are growing, managing waste is becoming increasingly challenging. Global plastic waste is set to...
The Removal Chain & Sentient Life Cycles
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Op/Positions
7.1
Tectonics by Any Other Name
by Germane Barnes
What is the relationship between the historical events in Figure 1? The timeline contains a prophecy and a...
Tectonics by Any Other Name
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Peer Review
8.2
Envisioning In-Situ Sea Level Rise Adaptation for Coastal Cities 
by Melanie S. F. Lander, Wendy Meguro, Josephine I. Briones, Ireland R. Castillo & Charles H. Fletcher
Coastal cities will experience varied levels of sea level rise, driving coastal erosion, groundwater inundation,...
Envisioning In-Situ Sea Level Rise Adaptation for Coastal Cities 
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Op/Positions
5.2
Thinking Tools for Systems Thinking
by Azam Khan
Connecting global conditions to local actions is inherently difficult because it requires a different way of thinking....
Thinking Tools for Systems Thinking
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Op/Positions
8.2
Coded Objects: A Material Method
by Anna-Maria Meister
The design and distribution of information have become a driver of world politics and the economy. Yet the formal...
Coded Objects: A Material Method
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Peer Review
8.2
Enhancing Outdoor Comfort: Leveraging Sky View Factor Analysis 
by Lei Xu, Daniel K. H. Wong, Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan & Thomas Schroepfer
Climate change exacerbates outdoor thermal conditions globally and locally, particularly in densely populated urban...
Enhancing Outdoor Comfort: Leveraging Sky View Factor Analysis 
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Op/Positions
7.1
Geomorphic Tectonics
by Michael U. Hensel
Intractable Divisions? Current approaches to the architectural object and the concepts of tectonics exhibit significant...
Geomorphic Tectonics
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Research Methodologies
6.2
Construction Automation and Design Research
by Adam Fingrut & Darwin Lau
The Center for Robotics in Construction and Architecture (CRCA) is an integrated research unit established in 2017...
Construction Automation and Design Research
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Op/Positions
8.1
Climate and Architectural Education: Are Buildings Always the Answer?
by William W. Braham
One of the most potent ideas propelling the 2030 Challenge for climate action within the architectural community...
Climate and Architectural Education: Are Buildings Always the Answer?
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6.1
Standing or Sitting: The Water Pavilion at Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Memorial and its Restoration
by Anne-Catrin Schultz & Guido Pietropoli
It does not make sense to use the term “tomb” for the project built by Carlo Scarpa in San Vito di Altivole...
Standing or Sitting: The Water Pavilion at Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Memorial and its Restoration
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Op/Positions
5.1
Interview with Peter Galison: On Method
by Peter Galison, Winifred Elysse Newman (Interviewer)
Peter Galison is a University Professor in Physics and the History of Science at Harvard University. His publications,...
Interview with Peter Galison: On Method
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Editorial
5.1
Method, Matter, Practice, and Procedure
by Winifred Elysse Newman (Issue Editor)
The clarion call for research in architecture academies and the profession sounded a century ago. From the 1930s...
Method, Matter, Practice, and Procedure
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Editorial
5.1
Re‐Opening
by Marci S. Uihlein (Executive Editor)
News of successful COVID‐19 vaccines offer hope of a return to “normal” once manufacturing and distribution...
Re‐Opening
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Editorial
4.2
Matter(s)
by Chad Kraus
The primordial analog world. The novel digital world. Two canonical poles in a quintessential dualism. Like the...
Matter(s)
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Editorial
4.2
What's the Matter?
by Marci S. Uihlein (Executive Editor)
This issue of Technology | Architecture + Design began in one world and will be published in another. Two major...
What's the Matter?
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Op/Positions
4.2
Interview with Craig Curtis: Industrialized Construction at Katerra
by Craig Curtis, Chad Kraus & Marci S. Uihlein
Katerra’s stated goal is to revolutionize, through the application of advanced technologies, an AEC industry...
Interview with Craig Curtis: Industrialized Construction at Katerra
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Op/Positions
4.2
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber
by Alison Kwok, Hannah Zalusky, Maria Isabel Rivera, Lindsay Rasmussen & Hannah McKay
With advances in wood product development and building code acceptance, mass timber structural systems have become...
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber
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Op/Positions
4.2
Breathing is Spatial
by Michael Murphy
As a child, I had a bad case of asthma. Breathing, or rather the inability to breathe, was ever present in my childhood....
Breathing is Spatial
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Research Methodologies
4.2
Evolving Vernacular: Reinventing Rammed Earth in the Context of Twenty-First Century Seismic Regulation
by Keith Zawistowski, Marie Zawistowski & Thierry Joffroy
The vernacular architecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeast France is dominated by unstabilized...
Evolving Vernacular: Reinventing Rammed Earth in the Context of Twenty-First Century Seismic Regulation
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4.2
Interwoven: The Kolon One & Only Tower
by Stan Su
The Kolon One & Only Tower in Seoul, South Korea is a new research laboratory, design studio, and corporate...
Interwoven: The Kolon One & Only Tower
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Research Methodologies
4.2
Enhancing the Human Condition: Reducing Building Material Toxicity by Design
by Jeremy Knoll
Architects play a critical role in reducing building material toxicity and protecting occupants’ health. This...
Enhancing the Human Condition: Reducing Building Material Toxicity by Design
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Peer Review
4.2
Architectural Laboratory Practice for the Development of Clay and Ceramic-Based Photosynthetic Biocomposites
by Assia Stefanova, Ben Bridgens, Pichaya In-na, Gary Caldwell & Rachel Armstrong
This study outlines the development of clay and ceramic-based living biocomposite materials under minimal moisture...
Architectural Laboratory Practice for the Development of Clay and Ceramic-Based Photosynthetic Biocomposites
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Peer Review
4.2
Mass(ive) Timber: Examining the Thermally Massive Behavior of Mass Timber Construction
by Aurora Jensen, Leslie Norford & Jonathan Grinham
While the embodied carbon benefits of mass timber are well studied, numerous claims regarding mass timber as thermal...
Mass(ive) Timber: Examining the Thermally Massive Behavior of Mass Timber Construction
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Call for Papers
4.2
Matter: Call for Papers
by Chad Kraus
Materials—and their alchemical transformations through construction—have long been the subject of intense study...
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Details+
4.2
Development of a Mono-Material Wood Wall System: Activating Digitally Fabricated Air Cavities for High-Performance Solid Timber Construction
by Oliver Bucklin, Achim Menges, Hans Drexler & Tobias Haag
The Mono-Material Wood Wall (MMWW) is a solid timber construction system combining traditional timber joinery techniques...
Development of a Mono-Material Wood Wall System: Activating Digitally Fabricated Air Cavities for High-Performance Solid Timber Construction
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Peer Review
4.2
Hygro‐Responsive Canopies: Scaled Passive Actuation with Chitosan Composites
by Sachin Sean Gupta, Dhileep Kumar Jayashankar & Kenneth Tracy
Current examples of passively actuated structures and surfaces show enormous potential in conferring buildings...
Hygro‐Responsive Canopies: Scaled Passive Actuation with Chitosan Composites
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Peer Review
4.2
Porous Mass: Terra-Cotta Redefined Through Advanced Fabrication
by Laura B. Garófalo, Miguel Guitart & Omar Khan
Terra-Cotta Grotto prototype tests the bioclimatic conditioning and experiential qualities of a porous mass by...
Porous Mass: Terra-Cotta Redefined Through Advanced Fabrication
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Re/Views
4.2
Rethinking Wood: Future Dimensions of Timber Assembly
by Ryan E. Smith
Wood is seemingly an answer to the systemic challenges of scarce material resources, dearth of construction labor,...
Rethinking Wood: Future Dimensions of Timber Assembly
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Re/Views
4.2
Manufacturing Architecture: An Architect's Guide to Custom Processes, Materials, and Applications
by Scott Overall & John Paul Rysavy
A reference to custom repetitive manufacturing for architects, Dana K. Gulling’s Manufacturing Architecture:...
Manufacturing Architecture: An Architect's Guide to Custom Processes, Materials, and Applications
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Re/Views
4.2
Whole-Building Life Cycle Assessment: Comparison of Available Tools
by Victoria Herrero-Garcia
For years, reducing the carbon emissions related to building operations has taken priority. However, operational...
Whole-Building Life Cycle Assessment: Comparison of Available Tools
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Editorial
4.2
Design Drives
by Andrzej Zarzycki (Associate Editor)
Increasingly our designs and practice are informed by a broader set of parameters enabled by new tools and technologies....
Design Drives
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Peer Review
4.2
Superjammed: Tunable and Morphable Spanning Structures Through Granular Jamming
by Zach Cohen, Nathaniel Elberfeld, Andrew Moorman, Jared Laucks, Schendy Kernizan, Douglas Holmes & Skylar Tibbits
This paper introduces a method of post-tensioning granular jammed structures to achieve horizontal spans that can...
Superjammed: Tunable and Morphable Spanning Structures Through Granular Jamming
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Op/Positions
4.2
DIY in Pandemic Times: Design Leadership During COVID-19
by Alex Cabral, Heather Freeman, Robby Sachs, Tom Schmidt & José Gamez
COVID-19 will have lasting impact upon our teaching methodologies and learning outcomes, from primary school through...
DIY in Pandemic Times: Design Leadership During COVID-19
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Op/Positions
4.2
Responding to COVID-19: Healthcare Surge Capacity Design for High-Consequence Infectious Disease
by Hui Cai, Frank Zilm, Hugo Sheward & Kerianne Graham
Surge events are not new to healthcare organizations. Natural disasters, including floods, hurricanes, and pandemics,...
Responding to COVID-19: Healthcare Surge Capacity Design for High-Consequence Infectious Disease
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Editorial
4.1
The Translation of Meaning
by Marci S. Uihlein (Executive Editor)
“Research,” “scholarship,” and “information gathering” are terms that can be used indiscriminately...
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Editorial
4.1
Creative Framing, Systematic Exploration
by Caryn Brause (Issue Editor)
The value of translation—of bridging the divide between concept and realization, between academia and practice—has...
Creative Framing, Systematic Exploration
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Op/Positions
4.1
Research, Practice, and the Making of Architecture
by Monica Ponce de Leon
The old dichotomy of research vs. practice continues to play out in the constructed division between academia and...
Research, Practice, and the Making of Architecture
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Op/Positions
4.1
Performance-Based Engineering Provides Path to More Compelling Mass Timber Projects
by Eric McDonnell & Bevan Jones
Over the past decade, the rise of engineered mass timber products has enabled several tall wood buildings to be...
Performance-Based Engineering Provides Path to More Compelling Mass Timber Projects
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Op/Positions
4.1
Building Dusty Robotics
by Tessa Lau
The construction industry is one of the largest industries in the world, employing over ten million workers in...
Building Dusty Robotics
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Op/Positions
4.1
Racial Equity and the Future of Work
by Henry Renski, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Tiamba Wilkerson, Shannon C. Roberts, Shlomo Zilberstein & Enobong H. Branch
Automation is changing the nature of work in ways that are profoundly impacting the social and built environments.1...
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Research Methodologies
4.1
Designing for Durability: Helsinki Central Library’s Wood Facade
by Anna-Mikaela Kaila & Pekka Heikkinen
The Helsinki Central Library, Oodi, opened to the public in December 2018, is characterized by an ambitious, large-scale...
Designing for Durability: Helsinki Central Library’s Wood Facade
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Research Methodologies
4.1
CITYFOOD: Research Design for an International, Transdisciplinary Collaboration
by Gundula Proksch & Daniela Baganz
Twenty-first-century cities face challenges including potential food shortages, water scarcity, and dependence...
CITYFOOD: Research Design for an International, Transdisciplinary Collaboration
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Research Methodologies
4.1
Quantitative Methods for Architecture Research: Lessons from the Social Sciences
by David Goodman
Architectural research can benefit from quantitative research methods commonly used in the social sciences. Through...
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Call for Papers
4.1
TRANSLATION: Call for Papers
by Caryn Brause (Issue Editor)
From new design procedures to the physical testing of materials and production techniques, as well as alternative...
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Peer Review
4.1
Fabric-Lined Tensile Formwork for Cast-in-Place Concrete Walls
by Kristopher Palagi
This research explores fabric-lined tensile formwork systems for casting structural concrete walls with an architectural...
Fabric-Lined Tensile Formwork for Cast-in-Place Concrete Walls
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Peer Review
4.1
Shifting Practices in Twentieth-Century Specification Writing: The Case of the R. Guastavino Company
by Jessica Garcia Fritz
As master builders of structural-tile arches and vaults, the R. Guastavino Company was considered the only entity...
Shifting Practices in Twentieth-Century Specification Writing: The Case of the R. Guastavino Company
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Peer Review
4.1
Making a Sensory Cocoon: Translating Discrete Sensory Needs into a Built Solution with Emerging Digital Fabrication Workflows
by Jonathan Essary, Giyoung Park, Lisa Adams & Upali Nanda
Multisensory environments are believed to be helpful for neurodiverse individuals with sensory-processing issues...
Making a Sensory Cocoon: Translating Discrete Sensory Needs into a Built Solution with Emerging Digital Fabrication Workflows
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Peer Review
4.1
Urbano: A Tool to Promote Active Mobility Modeling and Amenity Analysis in Urban Design
by Timur Dogan, Yang Yang, Samitha Samaranayake & Nikhil Saraf
Modern planning paradigms promote the design of walkable neighborhoods. To allow urban designers to understand...
Urbano: A Tool to Promote Active Mobility Modeling and Amenity Analysis in Urban Design
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Peer Review
4.1
Clay Cracking: A Natural Process Guiding a Design-to-Fabrication Method for Cast Aluminum Panels
by Edward M. Segal, Lisa Ramsburg, Josh Draper, Scot Thompson, Powell Draper, Bruce Lindsay, Alexandra A. H. Cheng & Max Dowd
Clay cracking, a natural process often associated with material failure, can be leveraged by designers to generate...
Clay Cracking: A Natural Process Guiding a Design-to-Fabrication Method for Cast Aluminum Panels
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Editorial
4.1
More or Less
by Clare Olsen (Associate Editor)
The process of translation in architecture requires expertise in the language and content of design, such as using...
More or Less
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Re/Views
4.1
The Role of California's State Regulations in Reducing Building-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Senate Bill 32, Assembly Bill 32, Senate Bill 100, and Assembly Bill 262
by Amy Leedham & Claire Maxfield
The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “Summary for Policymakers” was very clear: The earth...
The Role of California's State Regulations in Reducing Building-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Senate Bill 32, Assembly Bill 32, Senate Bill 100, and Assembly Bill 262
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Re/Views
4.1
The Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan: Community Engagement and Policy Development Addressing Housing
by Heather Worthington
On December 7, 2018, the Minneapolis City Council passed the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan by a vote of 12–1....
The Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan: Community Engagement and Policy Development Addressing Housing
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Re/Views
4.1
Materials in Progress: Innovations for Designers and Architects
by Sneha Patel
Jellyfish chips, plastic-eating bacterium, chicory-root nylon, artificial cartilage made from recycled denim fabric,...
Materials in Progress: Innovations for Designers and Architects
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Re/Views
4.1
Modern Construction Envelopes: Systems for Architectural Design and Prototyping (3rd ed.)
by Liane Hancock
The third edition of Modern Construction Envelopes presents a comprehensive taxonomy of building envelope systems...
Modern Construction Envelopes: Systems for Architectural Design and Prototyping (3rd ed.)
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Editorial/Introduction
3.2
OPEN: Call for Papers
by Julian Wang (Issue Editor)
TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners,...
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Op/Positions
3.2
FELT: Communicating Emotion Through Textile Expression
by Felecia Davis
The expressive material of a textile can be used to evoke emotion(s) through vision and touch. Because textiles...
FELT: Communicating Emotion Through Textile Expression
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Research Methodologies
3.2
Enhancing Workplace Design through Advanced Floor Plates Analytics
by Arjun Kaicker, Uli Blum, Philipp Siedler & Lorena Espaillat
Organizations increasingly value their workplaces as important to their success through stimulating collaboration...
Enhancing Workplace Design through Advanced Floor Plates Analytics
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Research Methodologies
3.2
Conducting Human-Centered Building Science at the Well Living Lab
by Sara Aristizabal, Paige Porter, Nicholas Clements, Carolina Campanella, Rongpeng Zhang, Kevin Hovde & Chi Lam
The Well Living Lab explores a methodological approach to conducting human-centered building science research in...
Conducting Human-Centered Building Science at the Well Living Lab
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Peer Review
3.2
Generative Deep Learning in Architectural Design
by David Newton
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an emerging research area in deep learning that have demonstrated impressive...
Generative Deep Learning in Architectural Design
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Peer Review
3.2
3D Turntables: Humanizing Architectural Technology Through Hip-Hop
by Sekou Cooke
This paper explores the potential impacts of hip-hop culture on architectural technology through arguments on humanizing...
3D Turntables: Humanizing Architectural Technology Through Hip-Hop
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Peer Review
3.2
The 'Air-Wall': Re-Evaluating a Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double-Skin Facade
by Ute Poerschke, Donghyun Rim, Gen Pei & Homeira Mirhosseini
In the 1950s, architect William Hajjar built a four-story research building with a two-story double-skin facade...
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Peer Review
3.2
Clouds and Cataracts: Optical Experiments at Sir John Soane's Museum
by Danielle Willkens
Plagued by cataracts, Sir John Soane’s (1753–1837) failing eyesight prompted new design strategies at his house...
Clouds and Cataracts: Optical Experiments at Sir John Soane's Museum
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Peer Review
3.2
Building Envelope Mositure Transport in the Context of Assembly Aging and Uncertainty
by Daniel Chung & Jin Wen
Uncertainty analysis and assembly aging can be meaningfully integrated into building envelope simulations to predict...
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Peer Review
3.2
Defining Geometry Levels for Optimizing BIM for VR: Insights from Traditional Architectural Media
by Katie Graham, Cailen Pybus, Nicolas Arellano, Joey Doherty, Lara Chow, Stephen Fai & Tyler Grunt
Virtual reality (VR) provides a unique opportunity for sharing culturally significant spaces that are not physically...
Defining Geometry Levels for Optimizing BIM for VR: Insights from Traditional Architectural Media
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Editorial
3.2
Supradata: The Experimental Dimensions of Data
by Chad Kraus
Whether big data or small, it has become clear that data, and their impact on our daily lives, are inescapable....
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Re/Views
3.2
Architecture Design Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation
by Paola Sanguinetti
Phil Bernstein situates Architecture Design Data in a transformational moment, when the development of building...
Architecture Design Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation
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Re/Views
3.2
Design Immersion and Virtual Presence
by Luisa Caldas & Mohammad Keshavarzi
The recent emergence of virtual reality (VR) as a next-generation human-computer interface followed a strong industry...
Design Immersion and Virtual Presence
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Re/Views
3.2
Smart Building Design: Conception, Planning, Realization, and Operation
by Joon-Ho Choi
With the help of advanced technology, smart infrastructure has become ubiquitous, and many of the elements we interact...
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Research Methodologies
3.1
Research Beyond Smart Cities
by Marcus Foth
QUT Urban Informatics are currently working with university and industry partners on the Rapid Analytics Interactive...
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Research Methodologies
3.1
Strategies for Sustainable Communities: Landscape-Based Landslide Risk Alleviation in Medellín
by Alejandro Echeverri & Carlos Cadena-Gaitán
Urban population growth has been considerable during the last five decades in Medellín. It has varied between...
Strategies for Sustainable Communities: Landscape-Based Landslide Risk Alleviation in Medellín
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Research Methodologies
3.1
Mapping the Body: The Use of the Body Mapping Method to Explore Health and the Built Environment in Cape Town, South Africa
by Warren Smit & Andrew Tucker
How do different types of built environment impact the health and well-being of residents? The working hypothesis...
Mapping the Body: The Use of the Body Mapping Method to Explore Health and the Built Environment in Cape Town, South Africa
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Call for Papers
3.1
Urbanizing: Call for Papers
by Chris Ford (Issue Editor)
Urbanizing is an active process. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and by the year...
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Peer Review
3.1
Structural Bamboo Building Codes: Catalysts for Industry, Research, and Construction Technology
by David Witte (Independent Scholar)
On April 16, 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake destroyed over 35,000 homes along the Pacific coast of Ecuador, leaving...
Structural Bamboo Building Codes: Catalysts for Industry, Research, and Construction Technology
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Peer Review
3.1
Morphogenic Spatial Analysis: A Novel Approach for Visualizing Volumetric Urban Conditions and Generating Analytical Morphology
by Marshall Prado
This investigation explores the simultaneous mapping of environmental and socioeconomic conditions for the volumetric...
Morphogenic Spatial Analysis: A Novel Approach for Visualizing Volumetric Urban Conditions and Generating Analytical Morphology
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Peer Review
3.1
Backyard Housing Boom: New Markets for Affordable Housing and the Role of Digital Technology
by Alysia Bennett, Dana Cuff & Gus Wendel
In an effort to address California’s affordable housing shortage, lawmakers recently passed statewide legislation...
Backyard Housing Boom: New Markets for Affordable Housing and the Role of Digital Technology
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Peer Review
3.1
Mixed Reality Visualizations of Urban Data
by Amber Bartosh & Laura Clark
As a consequence of inexpensive sensors, ubiquitous tracking devices, and abundant digital storage, by 2019 smarter...
Mixed Reality Visualizations of Urban Data
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Peer Review
3.1
Delta Urbanism: Aligning Adaptation with the Protection and Restoration Paradigm in Coastal Louisiana
by Traci Birch & Jeff Carney
Increasing resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change through hazard mitigation and social capacity building...
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Editorial
3.1
A Ladder
by Chad Kraus
In May of 2015, climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed that, for the...
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Re/Views
3.1
Too Big: Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change
by Diane E. Davis
When Hurricane Sandy hit the New York and New Jersey coasts in October 2012, the region was immobilized for days....
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Re/Views
3.1
Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit
by Deland Chan
The twenty-first century, or the “Century of the City,” involves rapid urbanization in ways that are divergent...
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Re/Views
3.1
Learning from Logistics: How Networks Change Our Cities
by Nik Luka
Architecture has an on-again/off-again relationship with other disciplines when it comes to critical theory. Clare...
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Re/Views
3.1
The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
by Kathy Velikov
One way to understand the shape of cities is to understand how the urban environment coevolves with technological...
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Re/Views
3.1
Building-Integrated Solar Technology: Architectural Design with Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Energy
by Ronald Fergle
The world of architecture is in the midst of a revolution, a seismic sea-change in how our energy infrastructure...
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Editorial
3.2
Data Integrity and Future Systems
by Marci S. Uihlein
Data is neither pure nor agnostic. Rather, data is constructed by human beings, as are the systems that surround...
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Editorial
3.2
Data in Architecture: Structure and Content
by Julian Wang
Architectural space is exposed to the influences of numerous stimuli, such as daylight, ambient humidity, occupants’...
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Op/Positions
3.2
Blockchains as Enablers of Participatory Smart Grids
by Martin E. Wainstein
The next thirty years must bring about an accelerated change in our urban infrastructure. Global efforts, to prevent...
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Op/Positions
3.2
Improving Predictions of the Urban Wind Environment Using Data
by Catherine Gorlé
Analysis of the urban wind environment can play an important role in the design of sustainable urban areas. The...
Improving Predictions of the Urban Wind Environment Using Data
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Op/Positions
3.2
Qualitative Data and Design: Understanding the Experimental Qualities of Place
by Lynne C. Manzo
Data come in many forms. They can be numbers, images, stories, sounds, and feelings; they can be biological tissue...
Qualitative Data and Design: Understanding the Experimental Qualities of Place
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Peer Review
2.2
Climate-Adaptive Volume: Solving the Motion Envelope of a Reconfigurable Cooling Aperture for Desert Climate
by Dorit Aviv & Axel Kilian
Through several prototypes of a roof aperture for passive cooling in a desert climate, the relationships between...
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Peer Review
2.2
The Impact of Measurement Research on Prefabrication and Modulation in SOM’s Postwar Housing and Office Buildings
by Hyun-Tae Jung
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) committed to innovations in prefabrication and modulation of construction in...
The Impact of Measurement Research on Prefabrication and Modulation in SOM’s Postwar Housing and Office Buildings
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Peer Review
2.2
Profiling Occupancy Patterns to Calibrate Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs) Using Measured Data Clustering
by Rawad El Kontar & Tarek Rakha
Uncertainty in predicting occupancy patterns leads to discrepancies in simulated building energy when compared...
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Peer Review
2.2
Experiments Toward Hyper-Local Reverse Heat Flow Assemblies
by Lars Junghans, Daniel Tish, Dustin Brugmann, Kathy Velikov & Geoffrey Thün
Latitudo Borealis is a project that develops an innovative cold-climate wall assembly that combines new passive...
Experiments Toward Hyper-Local Reverse Heat Flow Assemblies
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Peer Review
2.2
From Instrument to Architecture: Environmental Models as Design Tools
by Lisa Moffitt
This paper revisits a case study in the history of technology, Étienne-Jules Marey’s 1900–1902 wind tunnel...
From Instrument to Architecture: Environmental Models as Design Tools
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Peer Review
2.2
Nature and the City: Measuring the Attention Restoration Benefits of Singapore’s Urban Vertical Greenery
by Stephanie Timm, Lynne Dearborn & Jason Pomeroy
A considerable amount of research has shown that views of nature can provide psychological benefits. Attention...
Nature and the City: Measuring the Attention Restoration Benefits of Singapore’s Urban Vertical Greenery
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Editorial
2.2
Nürburgring-ing
by Chris Ford (Associate Editor)
Performance can be understood as a measure of function. Beyond identifying nominal effects, the quantification...
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Re/Views
2.2
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989: The Museum of Modern Art New York City November 13, 2017–April 8, 2018
by Sean Anderson
The machine has been central to The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition history since its founding. Exhibitions...
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989: The Museum of Modern Art New York City November 13, 2017–April 8, 2018
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Re/Views
2.2
“Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction, and Performance” by Michael Green and Jim Taggart
by Ulrich Dangel
The use of wood in the construction of multistory buildings is receiving increased attention at a time when our...
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Re/Views
2.2
Software: Tableau and Microsoft Power BI
by Stephanie Carlisle
Data literacy—the ability to generate, understand, and use data—is a central challenge of design education...
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Re/Views
2.2
“Radical Technologies” by Adam Greenfield
by Michael Shamiyeh
Adam Greenfield’s recent book prompts the recollection of Siegfried Giedion’s seminal work Mechanization Takes...
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Re/Views
2.2
The Measure of All Things: Toward an Architecture of Information
by Barry M. Katz
A famous medieval illumination depicts God as an architect, armed with a set of calipers, measuring the boundaries...
The Measure of All Things: Toward an Architecture of Information
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Editorial
3.1
The Speed of Urbanizing
by Marci S. Uihlein (Executive Editor)
In his poem “Papa’s Bridge,” Richard Blanco, inaugural poet and civil engineer, shares how a bridge was impressed...
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Editorial
3.1
Processing
by Chris Ford (Issue Editor)
To solve problems, we are incentivized to invent and develop new technologies. This process of invention requires...
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Op/Positions
3.1
Principles for Minimizing Global Land Impacts of Urbanization
by Eleanor C. Stokes & Karen C. Seto
Over the past half century, the global urban population has undergone unprecedented change, increasing from one...
Principles for Minimizing Global Land Impacts of Urbanization
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Op/Positions
3.1
The Resilient Design Imperative: A Call for Action
by Alice C. Hill
Ellicott City, a historic patch of Maryland nestled between the Tiber and Patapsco rivers, regularly endures catastrophic...
The Resilient Design Imperative: A Call for Action
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Op/Positions
3.1
A Case for Infrastructural Opportunism
by Linda C. Samuels
Since the publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, the term “sustainable development” and its accompanying...
A Case for Infrastructural Opportunism
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Research Methodologies
3.1
Designing for Complexity: The Challenge to Spatial Design from Sustainable Human Development in Cities
by Luís M. A. Bettencourt
Never in history have we built so much, in so many different places. Population growth, urbanization, and technological...
Designing for Complexity: The Challenge to Spatial Design from Sustainable Human Development in Cities
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Research Methodologies
3.1
One Belt One Road Urban Observatory (OBORobs)
by Rebecca L. H. Chiu & Chris Webster
BRI, a global development strategy affecting 65 countries, was advocated by China in 2013. The developing economies...
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Research Methodologies
3.1
Barcelona Links: Application of Research by Design to the Study of Urbanism
by Josep Parcerisa, Carles Crosas & Álvaro Clua
The problem of how to connect parts of the metropolis to break down interior barriers is of strategic importance...
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Peer Review
2.1
Innovating the Urban Water System: Achieving a Net Zero Water Future Beyond Current Regulation
by Courtney Crosson
Recent extreme climatic events and failing infrastructure have increased awareness of the need for expanded resilience...
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Peer Review
2.1
Archaeo-tectural Translations: New Roles for the Field Architect
by Tim Frank, Christina Luke & Christopher H. Roosevelt
This article examines the field architect’s evolving role in interdisciplinary archaeology projects when equipped...
Archaeo-tectural Translations: New Roles for the Field Architect
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Peer Review
2.1
3D Printing and Buildings: A Technology Review and Future Outlook
by Hongxi Yin, Ming Qu, Haiyan Zhang & YeChan Lim
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has drawn attention from professionals in various fields for its ability to efficiently...
3D Printing and Buildings: A Technology Review and Future Outlook
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Editorial
2.1
Searching
by Chris Ford (Associate Editor)
While addressing the World Architecture Festival in November 2017, architect Raphael Viñoly shared observations...
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Re/Views
2.1
Energy Accounts: Architecture Representations of Energy, Climate and the Future
by Les Norford
Intrigued by the title of this engaging compilation of essays, a reader interested in the built environment, energy,...
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Re/Views
2.1
Modern Construction Case Studies
by Keith Boswell
In 2001, Andrew Watts published the Modern Construction Handbook. Featuring construction assemblies found in notable...
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Re/Views
2.1
Built to Grow: Blending Architecture and Biology
by Gundula Proksch
The emerging discipline of biomimetics converges biology, chemistry, and engineering to offer a scientific approach...
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Re/Views
2.1
Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture
by Rachel Cruise
An architect’s ability to be creative and to translate conceptual ideas into spatial and material intentions...
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Editorial
2.2
Zen of Python: Principle 8
by Andrzej Zarzycki (Executive Editor)
Measuring is perhaps the most creative and rebellious act undertaken by humans. It is driven by the premise that...
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Editorial
2.2
Quantification and Quality in Architecture and Design
by Clare Olsen (Issue Editor)
Thrilled about his ability to understand previously unknown conditions, and in awe of the universe yet to be explored,...
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Op/Positions
2.2
Everything That Can Be Measured Will Be Measured
by Scott Marble
If the first phase of architecture’s engagement with digital technologies focused on form (roughly the early...
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Op/Positions
2.2
Balancing Design Conjecture and Research Analytics
by Martin Bechthold
The literature on design methods suitable for research related to the built environment is prolific. But the majority...
Balancing Design Conjecture and Research Analytics
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Op/Positions
2.2
Waste and Tolerance in Design and Construction
by Bill Kreysler
Building materials developed during the industrial revolution, when energy was cheap and raw materials seemingly...
Waste and Tolerance in Design and Construction
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Op/Positions
2.2
Cyber-Physical Systems and the Built Environment
by Dennis Shelden
Architecture’s position at the beginning of a complex process of procurement and delivery separates the discipline...
Cyber-Physical Systems and the Built Environment
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Op/Positions
2.2
URBOT’S Sons & Daughters: From Neutral to Nudge
by Dana Buntrock & Norihisa Kawashima
Sensors to measure movement, air quality, or heat have been around for a while. They’ve been dumbly opening doors...
URBOT’S Sons & Daughters: From Neutral to Nudge
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Op/Positions
2.2
Interview with Greg Lynn: Forward-Thinking Land Drones
by Greg Lynn & Clare Olsen (Interviewer)
Along with Michele and Roberto Colaninno and the Piaggio Group, Jeffrey Schnapp and I co-founded the company to...
Interview with Greg Lynn: Forward-Thinking Land Drones
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Research Methodologies
2.2
Post-Occupancy Testing of Thermal Dynamics of Design-Build Residences in Tucson, Arizona
by Mary Hardin
A series of low-cost residences were designed and constructed by students and faculty in the University of Arizona’s...
Post-Occupancy Testing of Thermal Dynamics of Design-Build Residences in Tucson, Arizona
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Research Methodologies
2.2
Challenges and Opportunities in Quantifying and Evaluating Building Sustainability
by Joshua Kneifel & Eric O’Rear
Green building demand in the US has grown over the last decade. Yet the development and implementation of holistic...
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Call for Papers
2.2
Measured
by Clare Olsen (Issue Editor)
Measurement is fundamental to the discipline of architecture. Through measurement, one gains a more complete understanding...
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Peer Review
2.2
Made-to-Measure: Automated Drawing and Material Craft
by Scott Overall, John Paul Rysavy, Clinton Miller, William Sharples, Christopher Sharples, Sameer Kumar, Andrea Vittadini & Victoire Saby
Automation in architectural design and documentation has often been a siloed process where discrete parts are scripted...
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Re/Views
1.2
Actualizing
by Chris Ford (Associate Editor)
In the fall of 2016, architect Thom Mayne, in conjunction with UCLA’s Now Institute, unveiled a proposal for...
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Re/Views
1.2
Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data, and Data Visualization: A Handbook For Data Driven Design
by Jon Christensen
Though not always obvious, there is a notable difference between research that searches for the truth and research...
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Re/Views
1.2
The Truthful Art: Data, Charts and Maps for Communication
by Kendall Nicholson
Cartographic Grounds is a beautifully conceived and executed book that explores the productive overlaps between...
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Re/Views
1.2
Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
by Martin Hogue
In their book Prototyping for Architects, authors Jane and Mark Burry provide insight into the wide-ranging means,...
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Re/Views
1.2
Prototyping for Architects
by Wes McGee
Mass-Customization, a term coined in 1987 by Stan Davis in his seminal book Future Perfect, described what was...
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Re/Views
1.2
Symposium: “Mass Customization and Design Democratization”
by Michael Leighton Beaman
Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s there was much speculation in the pages of California Arts and Architecture,...
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Re/Views
1.2
Cellular Fabrication
by Ted Shelton
Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s there was much speculation in the pages of California Arts and Architecture,...
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Re/Views
1.2
Smog Free Tower
by Zheng Tan
Contemporary design practice and education aim to address pressing social, environmental, and technological problems....
Smog Free Tower
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Editorial
2.1
Describe, Explain, and Predict
by Andrzej Zarzycki (Executive Editor)
Contemporary design practice and education aim to address pressing social, environmental, and technological problems....
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Editorial
2.1
Open
by Marci S. Uihlein (Issue Editor)
In his reflection on “The Nature of Research,” L. Bruce Archer, the late mechanical engineer and professor...
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Op/Positions
2.1
Re-finding a Voice: Building an Agenda for Research in Architecture
by Thomas Vonier
Architectural research is constitutively different in an age of open systems. There are important epistemological...
Re-finding a Voice: Building an Agenda for Research in Architecture
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Op/Positions
2.1
Architectural Research in an Age of Open Systems
by Kiel Moe
Design Research has an epistemological mode that differs from those in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities,...
Architectural Research in an Age of Open Systems
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Op/Positions
2.1
Design Research: Objects, Procedures, and New Understanding
by Stan Ruecker & Jennifer Roberts-Smith
Shifting objects across the earth’s surface is no easy matter. The moon rushes through space, as do the satellites....
Design Research: Objects, Procedures, and New Understanding
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Op/Positions
2.1
Legs
by Theo Jansen
Hurrying across a deserted beach, their many legs weaving intricate spatial patterns, Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest...
Legs
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Op/Positions
2.1
“Life” on the Beach
by Vera Parlac
The recent resurgence of user-centered work in the architecture and design fields underlines the imperative to...
“Life” on the Beach
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Research Methodologies
2.1
Architectural Research Legally and Ethically Considered
by Lynne M. Dearborn & AnnaMarie Bliss
OPEN represents inclusion, exploration, and open-mindedness. With this issue, we direct this receptivity towards...
Architectural Research Legally and Ethically Considered
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Peer Review
2.1
Heat Mapping Drones: An Autonomous Computer-Vision-Based Procedure for Building Envelope Inspection Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
by Tarek Rakha, Amanda Liberty, Alice Gorodetsky, Burak Kakillioglu & Senem Velipasalar
Comprehensive and accurate energy audits are essential to maximize energy savings and improvements in buildings...
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Peer Review
2.1
Snapping Facades: Exploring Elastic Instability for the Building Envelope
by Jin Young Song, Seoyoung Heo & Jongmin Shim
This article presents an alternative dynamic facade actuation mechanism utilizing the deformation of snapping instability...
Snapping Facades: Exploring Elastic Instability for the Building Envelope
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Peer Review
2.1
Developing Timber Volume Calculators Through a Comparative Case Study Analysis of Wood Utilization in On-Site and Off-Site Construction Methods
by Ryan E. Smith, Massih Nilforoushan Hamedani & Gentry Griffin
The research and development of Timber Volume Calculators (TVCs) was conducted to determine the amount of wood...
Developing Timber Volume Calculators Through a Comparative Case Study Analysis of Wood Utilization in On-Site and Off-Site Construction Methods
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Re/Views
1.1
Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change
by Jeremy Ficca
Flexible, agile, adaptive, responsive, transformative, dynamic—popular terms in contemporary architectural discourse—embody...
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Re/Views
1.1
M by Morphosis
by Martin Summers
My personal exposure to the monographs of Morphosis began as an undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky....
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Re/Views
1.1
Representing the Visible on Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
by Franca Trubiano
Hurrah! At last, the design and engineering community has benefited from an exhibit on the life and work of Sir...
Representing the Visible on Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Editorial
1.2
The Mirror Stage
by Andrzej Zarzycki
The moment an infant discovers its reflection marks an important stage in child development. Early twentieth-century...
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Editorial
1.2
Disengage, Augment, Adapt
by Jeana Ripple
Questions of design simulation are no longer limited to the scope of technology experts. Most simulation research...
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Op/Positions
1.2
Research and Architecture’s Knowledge Loop
by Thomas Fisher
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has developed a research roadmap that sends the AIA further down a road...
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Op/Positions
1.2
Simulation and Design of Hybrid Human-Natural-Technological Systems
by Marina Alberti
Interactions among complex and rapidly evolving human, natural, and technological systems in urbanizing regions...
Simulation and Design of Hybrid Human-Natural-Technological Systems
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Op/Positions
1.2
Architecture from the Bottom-up
by Daekwon Park
Buildings are multiscale material systems with an interconnected web of assemblies, components, and materials....
Architecture from the Bottom-up
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Op/Positions
1.2
Computational Design Synergy: Stimulation Through Simulation
by Alvise Simondetti & David Birch
In complex decision-making such as city design, good designers should find the most synergetic solution between...
Computational Design Synergy: Stimulation Through Simulation
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Op/Positions
1.2
Computational Doppelgängers
by Nataly Gattegno & Jason Kelly Johnson
Future Cities Lab explores the intertwining of physical space and objects with their computational doppelgängers:...
Computational Doppelgängers
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Op/Positions
1.2
Bespoke and Organic: Simulation toward Simplification, Repetition, and Rationalization
by James O'Donnell, David J. Gerber & Shibo Ren
The recent history of architecture and engineering has rightly focused on rationalization to realize otherwise...
Bespoke and Organic: Simulation toward Simplification, Repetition, and Rationalization
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Research Methodologies
1.2
The Limits of Simulation: Towards a New Culture of Architectural Engineering
by Jan Knippers
Computational design and fabrication are at the focus of advanced practice and research in architecture. They allow...
The Limits of Simulation: Towards a New Culture of Architectural Engineering
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Research Methodologies
1.2
The Bullitt Center: A Comparative Analysis Between Simulated and Operational Performance
by Robert Peña, Chris Meek & Dylan Davis
Energy and thermal comfort simulations guide the design of integrated building systems in modern high performance...
The Bullitt Center: A Comparative Analysis Between Simulated and Operational Performance
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Editorial/Introduction
1.2
Simulations: Modeling, Measuring, and Disrupting Design
by Jeanna Ripple
Model-based optimization is an innovative optimization strategy and particularly appropriate for time-intensive...
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Model-based Optimization for Architectural Design: Optimizing Daylight and Glare in Grasshopper
by Thomas Wortmann
This paper describes a novel simulation method for measuring the amount of buzz or productive congestion in an...
Model-based Optimization for Architectural Design: Optimizing Daylight and Glare in Grasshopper
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1.2
The Buzz Metric: A Graph-based Method for Quantifying Productive Congestion in Generative Space Planning for Architecture
by Danil Nagy, Lorenzo Villaggi, James Stoddart & David Benjamin
Conventional energy-efficient wall assemblies suffer from thermal bridging and moisture entrapment due to thick...
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1.2
Performance Based Simulations for Membrane-based Enclosures
by Helen Bergstrom, Ryan Abendroth, Jonathan Knowles & Derek Stein
Greenhouse gas emissions from extracting and manufacturing building materials, often termed “embodied carbon,”...
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1.2
Benchmarking the Embodied Carbon of Buildings
by Kathrina Simonen, Barbara X. Rodriguez & Catherine De Wolf
SIFT descriptors exist within the lineage of flattened architectural representation but pose new disciplinary ambiguities...
Benchmarking the Embodied Carbon of Buildings
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Drawing Disruptions: Representing Automated Distortions of Multi-Perspectival Form
by Joshua M. Taron & Matthew Parker
This paper poses the question: Is BIM-based energy simulation reliable? If so, how might this impact early-stage...
Drawing Disruptions: Representing Automated Distortions of Multi-Perspectival Form
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Disrupting the Status Quo with Early-Stage BIM-Based Energy Modeling
by Jenn McArthur & Xi Sun
Design history reveals highly differentiated types of simulations that precede the computationally-driven modeling...
Disrupting the Status Quo with Early-Stage BIM-Based Energy Modeling
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Editorial
1.1
Why TAD?
by Caryn Brause, Chris Ford, Clare Olsen, Jeana D'Agostino Ripple, Marci S. Uihlein & Andrzej Zarzycki
Discourse on technology and design is necessary and vital in our contemporary context of environmental crisis,...
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Editorial
1.1
Overcoming HTTP404
by Andrzej Zarzycki
When Kurt Gödel proposed the Incompleteness Theorem in 1931, it did not catch the popular imagination to the same...
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Op/Positions
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Loci of Disruptiveness: Reflections on Ethics at the Dawn of the Technocene
by Michael U. Hensel
The task is unnerving. To write a polemical article on technology and its potential forthcoming impact is an intimidating...
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Op/Positions
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Cities of Clarified Energy: Houston and Palo Alto
by Michael Bell & Eunjeong Seong
Tesla and Solar City launched the second installment of their home battery and integrated inverter known as Powerwall...
Cities of Clarified Energy: Houston and Palo Alto
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Op/Positions
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A Post-Digital Architectural Research Agenda to Address 21st Century Challenges
by Mark Clayton
In 1995, Mitchell and McCullough posed the question, “What was computer-aided design?” as a provocation that...
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Op/Positions
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In Service
by Anthony Denzer
As an architectural historian interested in issues of building performance, engineering, and integrated practice,...
In Service
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Research Methodologies
1.1
The Changing Higher Education Research Environment: New Opportunities for Architectural Research
by Shahin Vassigh
Higher education faces many challenges that are profoundly changing its funding, governance, values, and faculty...
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Research Methodologies
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Dynamic Building Environment Dashboard: Spatial Simulation Data Visualization in Sustainable Design
by J. Alstan Jakubiec, Max C. Doelling, Oliver Heckmann, Ramkumar Thambiraj & Vedashree Jathar
When communicating the results of environmental building performance analysis, It Is Important to display resultant...
Dynamic Building Environment Dashboard: Spatial Simulation Data Visualization in Sustainable Design
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Research Methodologies
1.1
Novelty and Ownership: Intellectual Property in Architecture and Design
by Martina Decker
Throughout history, architects have prided themselves on their problem-solving skills and their ability to overcome...
Novelty and Ownership: Intellectual Property in Architecture and Design
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Call for Papers
1.1
VIRAL: Information Technology as Prophet, Panacea, or Pariah?
by Andrzej Zarzycki
According to Kevin Kelly, founding member of Wired magazine, technology is ubiquitous, ever present and our destiny....
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Peer Review
1.1
Virtual Environment for Design and Analysis (VEDA): Interactive and Immersive Energy Data Visualizations for Architectural Design
by Amber Bartosh & Bess Krietemeyer
Visualizing energy-based data according to multiple perspectives and performance criteria is critical to understanding...
Virtual Environment for Design and Analysis (VEDA): Interactive and Immersive Energy Data Visualizations for Architectural Design
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1.1
Three Experiments in Wood and Computational Design
by Marcin Wójcik
This article focuses on the relationships among material-oriented design, digital technologies, and environmentally...
Three Experiments in Wood and Computational Design
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1.1
Robotic Control Strategies Applicable to Architectural Design
by Mathew Schwartz & Jaeheung Park
While research in robotic control has produced numerous inventions and extensions of human ability, industrial...
Robotic Control Strategies Applicable to Architectural Design
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1.1
A Mathematical Model Toward Energy Optimization with Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
by Mohamad T. Araji & Iqbal Shahid
This paper presents a new mathematical model for quantification of photovoltaics performance as a function of the...
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Peer Review
1.1
Assembling the Digital House by Hand: Lessons from Deep Engagement and Guiding the Experimental Impulse
by Dustin Albright, Dan Harding, David Pastre, Ulrike Heine & Vincent Blouin
The potential impact of digital fabrication for housing has been an intriguing topic of speculation for many years....
Assembling the Digital House by Hand: Lessons from Deep Engagement and Guiding the Experimental Impulse
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Editorial
1.1
Begetting
by Chris Ford
The shaping of our built environment is the result of multiple disciplines’ engagement and their respective discourses....
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Re/Views
1.1
The New ABC’s of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
by Matthew Jull
In an age of TED talks and an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, Ben Shneiderman’s The New ABCs of Research: Achieving...
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Re/Views
1.1
Research Methods for Architecture
by Rumiko Handa
Renewed interest in integrating research into design is apparent when we look at books published on the topic in...
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Re/Views
1.1
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by John J. Parman
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of the tech magazine, Wired, summarizes his thoughts and theses about...
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Re/Views
1.1
Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
by Sara L. Beckman
In the past decade, “design thinking” has taken the world by storm, exhorting individuals, companies, and academic...
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Call for Papers
2.1
OPEN: Call for Papers
by Marci S. Uihlein (Issue Editor)
OPEN represents inclusion, exploration, and open-mindedness. With this issue, we direct this receptivity towards...
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Climate explores and defines the roles of architecture, design, and technology in meeting the challenges facing our communities from current and forecasted changes in climate. Climate change continues to be a major problem facing our communities worldwide. In what way does climate change affect our understanding of the role of architecture and technology within our communities? How can we better define the role of architecture and technology in addressing climate change? How can we prepare for a future with more extreme climate conditions and the associated socioeconomic and political problems? Can architecture take a leadership role in transforming the built environment from part of the problem to part of the solution? How can we change the current value system that rewards aesthetics over performance and environmental impact? Is architectural education providing future architects with the values, knowledge, and skillsets needed to tackle climate change effectively?

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Engineering asserts the most significant advances in architectural technology are not achieved through any singular disciplinary practice, but rather through the hybridization of design and engineering action combined. Legacy differences between their epistemological perspectives and methodological approaches to research are becoming less distinct for improved engagement with twenty-first century design problems.
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We find inflection points in the history of architecture, engineering, and construction when the invention or modification of technologies significantly shifted the trajectory of each discipline; we observe translations of technology from one field to another; and we see how technologies can facilitate new ways of understanding and analyzing the built environment.
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Intelligence resides between sensing and acting. Intelligence, through data-driven technology and virtual experimentation, drives the capacity and catalyzes learning, understanding, and applying knowledge through tacit, explicit, haptic, visual, human, and artificial forms. While certain processes relinquish some agency to machines, they can also establish creative synergy for designers, ultimately enabling more responsive and responsible built environments.
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