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Issue 2:1

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Constant innovation in building technologies such as building materials, construction, computer-mediated design tools, automation, and virtual reality has yielded a strong impetus to value the expansion of research-based inquiry and method development in architecture. This OPEN issue provides a forum for established and emerging talent to share insights from diverse perspectives about state-of-the-art research.

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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...

Peer Review

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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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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

Editorial

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Searching

by Chris Ford (Associate Editor)

While addressing the World Architecture Festival in November 2017, architect Raphael Viñoly shared observations...

Re/Views

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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,...

Re/Views

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Modern Construction Case Studies

by Keith Boswell

In 2001, Andrew Watts published the Modern Construction Handbook. Featuring construction assemblies found in notable...

Re/Views

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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...

Re/Views

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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...

Editorial

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Describe, Explain, and Predict

by Andrzej Zarzycki (Executive Editor)

Contemporary design practice and education aim to address pressing social, environmental, and technological problems....

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...

Op/Positions

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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

Op/Positions

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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

Op/Positions

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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

Op/Positions

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Legs

by Theo Jansen

Hurrying across a deserted beach, their many legs weaving intricate spatial patterns, Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest...

Op/Positions

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“Life” on the Beach

by Vera Parlac

The recent resurgence of user-centered work in the architecture and design fields underlines the imperative to...

Research Methodologies

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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

Peer Review

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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...

Peer Review

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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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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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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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