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Articles: Op/Positions

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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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 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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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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