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Articles: Research Methodologies

8.2
Drawn Together: Coding and Curating Architectural Drawing After Computation
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
8.1
Enabling a Future-Focused Practice in an Uncertain Age
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
7.2
Prototypologies of Circularity 
The concept of a circular economy represents a way to overcome the current linear financial system’s social,...
Prototypologies of Circularity 
7.2
Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings 
Vacant lots exist in every city, and like land everywhere they carry inherent potential—socially, economically,...
Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings 
6.2
Construction Automation and Design Research
The Center for Robotics in Construction and Architecture (CRCA) is an integrated research unit established in 2017...
Construction Automation and Design Research
6.2
Critical Modeling
The Leonhard Obermeyer Center (LOC) at the Technical University of Munich represents a research network dedicated...
Critical Modeling
6.2
Digital Data Fostering University Campus Regenerative Design
The Urban Ecology Lab (Laboratorio de Ecologia Urbana—LEUr) originated during the Brazilian entry into the 2012...
Digital Data Fostering University Campus Regenerative Design
6.2
Workflows for Advanced Manufacturing in Design
The digitization and automation of design and manufacturing present a rich potential for overlaps between seemingly...
Workflows for Advanced Manufacturing in Design
6.2
Space Architecture in Microgravity: TESSERAE Project for Large Scale Space Structures
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
6.1
Impact of Digital Technologies on Historic Preservation Research at Multiple Scales
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