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Issue 11:1
Biogenic
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Call For Papers
TAD invites original and innovative research from scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. Contributions to the issue focus area are encouraged, but TAD will consider all papers that meet the TAD mission statement. The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis, but for consideration in this issue, manuscripts are due before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 15, 2026. All manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed. Manuscripts must follow the standards detailed in the TAD Author Guide, available at TADjournal.org.
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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Editorial/Introduction
9.2
A Nexus of Ties and Networks of Transfiguration
by
Winifred Elysse Newman
While invention may remain in some circles the purview of the lone genius, innovation is undeniably social, political,...
Editorial/Introduction
9.2
The Act of Innovating and Ingenuity of Innovation: Rethinking Creative Approaches to Building Sustainable Environments
by
Timothy O. Adekunle
Innovation has been discussed in various contexts, with scholars describing it as both the act of inventing ideas...
Op/Positions
9.2
Tryin’ to Make it Real, Compared to What?
by
David Rockwood
“In architecture, the everyday, local, and Indigenous vernacular reminds us of the tangible, material realities...
Op/Positions
9.2
Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Climate Change
by
Pablo La Roche
“Buildings should be smart but simple to operate, letting nature do the work as much as possible, with a gentle...
Op/Positions
9.2
Innovation Doesn’t Care, But We Must
by
Maria Yablonina
“In this research, we propose a novel workflow for doing a thing through application of some technology”—I...
Op/Positions
9.2
You Should Patent That!
by
Liane Hancock
“Within the field, architecture faculty are trained to ‘design think,’ and their solutions come quickly....
Op/Positions
9.2
Technologies of Holding, Containing, Maintaining, and Caring
by
Hélène Frichot
“Steven J. Jackson argues that in the dominant understanding of technological progress, innovation is assumed...
Research Methodologies
9.2
Instrumental and Constraint-Driven Thinnings Construction
by
Frank Bauer
When Andrew Witt discusses the increasing tendency towards automation in design, he begins by distinguishing between...
Research Methodologies
9.2
Plane Delivery: Towards a Physical Grammar for Large-Scale Digital Fabrication
by
Lawrence Sass
There will come a day when computers and robots will participate regularly in designing, fabricating, and delivering...
Details+
9.2
An Ecology of Light: The Synthesis of Light and Structure
by
James Carpenter
Over the 50-year trajectory of my studio’s work, observers often comment upon the works’ consistency: attention...
Editorial/Introduction
9.2
Low-Tech High-Impact Novelty in the Built Environment
by
Timothy O. Adekunle, Matan Mayer & Malgorzata A. Zboinska
As the act of envisioning future environments, design inherently involves innovation (Munigala et al. Citation2018;...
Peer Review
9.2
Synthesizing Quantitative and Qualitative Objectives in Interactive Genetic Algorithms
by
Zayad Motlib, Hank M. Haeusler, Michael J. Ostwald & Heba Eiz
A particular knowledge and application gap in Interactive Genetic Algorithms (IGAs) is associated with their capacity...
Peer Review
9.2
Methods for Creating Gridshell Models that Combine Using 3D Printing Pens with Hanging, Heating, and Inverting
by
Lillian Moy & Edward M. Segal
Physical modeling, which involves hanging elements, enables architects and engineers to design structures such...
Peer Review
9.2
Material Flows: Growing Stone Architectures from Water and Waste Concrete
by
Henry Aldridge
Using waste cement products, this paper speculates on how the process of chalk extraction may be reversed to create...
Peer Review
9.2
From Fruiting to Building: Exploring Dual-Purpose Mycelium Structures for Circular Economy Strategies
by
Canhui Chen, Linus Tan, Lachlan Blackmore, Harry Bryan Tweedale, Christian (Andi) Nygaard & Mark Burry
This research introduces an innovative approach to mycelium-based composites (MBC) in architectural design by integrating...
Peer Review
9.2
Deep Neural Network-Based Design Exploration with Concrete Cutting Waste
by
Beril Önalan, Eleftherios Triantafyllidis, Ioanna Mitropoulou & Catherine De Wolf
This paper introduces a computational approach to automate the reuse of concrete cutting waste in architectural...
Peer Review
9.2
New Building Technologies at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs
by
Etien Santiago
This paper excavates the history and conceptual relevance of innovative building technologies featured at the 1925...
Peer Review
9.2
Decoding Proximity Principle Using Visual Attention Software (VAS)
by
Ayman Najib Tomah
This study examines the application of Visual Attention Software (VAS) to enhance understanding of the Gestalt...
Peer Review
9.2
Project (Un)Build: A Reversible Timber Construction Method
by
Clara Mu He & Henry Chun Tak Chung
To mitigate the wood waste problem in landfills, this paper introduces Project (Un)Build, a timber construction...
Peer Review
9.2
Surface Tendon: Designing a Curved Folding Origami Joint
by
Yeh Yeh & Daekwon Park
Curved folding is a variation of origami that utilizes curved instead of straight creases. The curvature of the...
Peer Review
9.2
Re-Fashioning Earthbag Construction: Engaging Textile Waste Through Flexible-Formed Modular Rammed Earth Construction
by
Tiffanie Leung & Marcus Shaffer
To reduce the reliance of earthbag construction on polypropylene, an environmentally detrimental material, and...
Peer Review
9.2
A Decision-Making Tree for Adapting the Additive Manufacturing Repair Repertoire for Biopolymer Composite Materials
by
Ruxandra Chiujdea, Paul Nicholas, Martin Tamke, Carolyn-Nelle Preston Ichniowski, Carl Eppinger , Konrad Sonne, Shahriar Akbari & Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Drawing inspiration from ‘broken world thinking,’ aligning repair with innovation, this paper presents the...
Peer Review
9.2
Exploring the Integration of Technological Tools in Architectural Pedagogy: A Systematic Literature Review
by
Flora Fakourian, Mehdi Khakzand & Mehdi Hamzenejad
Over the past decade, technological tools have significantly reshaped architectural pedagogy, influencing how design...
Peer Review
9.2
Architecture as Thermopolitics
by
Daniel Torrego, Miguel Núñez-Peiró & Carmen Sánchez-Guevara
In recent years, Madrid has witnessed an increasing frequency, duration, and intensity of heat waves, exacerbated...
Re/Views
9.2
Innovation in Practice in Theory: Positioning Architectural Design and Its Agency
by
Matthew Allen
Edited by Caterina Barioglio, Daniele Campobenedetto, Andrea Alberto Dutto, Valeria Federighi, Caterina Quaglio,...
Re/Views
9.2
Conceptual Design of Structures: Connecting Engineering and Architecture
by
Andrzej Zarzycki
Edited by Pierluigi D’Acunto, Patrick Ole Ohlbrock, and Roland Pawlitschko, Birkhäuser, 2024 224 pages USD 70.99...
Editorial/Introduction
9.1
Ideal and Imperfect Generators
by
Winifred Elysse Newman
I’ll begin by paraphrasing a classical Greek metaphysical challenge: “What generates the generator?”1 The...
Editorial/Introduction
9.1
The Age of Autonomous Reproduction
by
David Newton
It has been nearly a century since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s influential work The Work of Art in the...
Op/Positions
9.1
Artificial Intelligence and Architectural Intention
by
Antoine Picon
In the summer of 2022, a series of striking yet somewhat disconcerting images made a strong impression on the international...
Op/Positions
9.1
Mediating Agency and Collective Knowledge: Architecture Under Autonomous Algorithms
by
Phil Bernstein
When I began my professional career in the mid-80s, there was little awareness of the possibilities and pitfalls...
Op/Positions
9.1
Outcome-Based BIM with AI Delivers Transformative Design Opportunities
by
Nicolas Mangon
The architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry isn’t a stranger to change. Over...
Op/Positions
9.1
Planning with Generative AI for Creativity, Global Insight, and Fairness
by
Thomas W. Sanchez
Some consider urban planning a rigid and methodical discipline bound by layers of bureaucracy, regulations, and...
Research Methodologies
9.1
Generative Design for Decarbonization: A Global Framework for Quantifying and Mitigating Emissions in Early-Stage Building Design
by
Snoweria Zhang, Sritoma Bhattacharjee & Bin Yan
The climate crisis demands urgent and far-reaching action. Building operations account for 30% of the world’s...
Research Methodologies
9.1
Urban Configurations: Mass Optimization with Real-World Constraints Using High-Performance Computing
by
Marcin Kosicki, Martha Tsigkari, Oscar Borgstrom, Chau Nguyen, Paul Shaju & Sherif Tarabishy
Generative design processes were used in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry long before...
Details+
9.1
Data-Driven Multi-Criteria Design of Amsterdam's Energy-Neutral and Hybrid Residential High-Rise
by
Rick Titulaer & Mathew Vola
Throughout Europe, the construction industry contributes around 35% of the continent’s waste and one-third of...
Peer Review
9.1
Generative Practices: From Theory to Implementation
by
Patricia Kio & Matan Mayer
Despite its proven capability of being integrated into various phases, from ideation to execution, many still view...
Peer Review
9.1
Collage in the Age of Generative AI
by
Kory Bieg
The design of buildings has become a predominantly digital affair, with computers replacing drafting boards. The...
Peer Review
9.1
The Impact of AI on Small Architecture Firms
by
Federica Joe Gardella, Luciana Mastrolia, Francesca Moro & Marta Rossi
This study investigates the impact of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) in architectural design practices,...
Peer Review
9.1
Pedagogy Explorations into Alternative Use of Generative AI in Design Studios
by
Jinmo Rhee & Eunjoo Oh
This exploratory study looks at the pedagogical application of generative AI in architectural design studios. While...
Peer Review
9.1
Evolutionary Algorithms: Creative Applications in the Early Design Phase
by
Uğur Yıldırım Şimşek, Berkay Özgen & Büşra Kuş
In recent years, the complexity of architecture and urban design has increased due to the growing need to address...
Peer Review
9.1
A Framework for Energy and Thermal Performance Modeling in Net-Zero Urban Clusters
by
Mengzhu Jiang & Mohamad T. Araji
This study presents a data-driven framework for optimizing net-zero building design by integrating urban context,...
Peer Review
9.1
Recetas Urbanas (Urban Recipes): Hacking Architectural and Urban Codes
by
Enrique Espinosa Pérez & José María Sánchez-Laulhé
By introducing Recetas Urbanas (Urban Recipes), a practice developed by Spanish architect Santiago Cirugeda in...
Peer Review
9.1
Stretch Codes and the Building Envelope
by
Kathy Velikov, Kazi Najeeb Hasan, Geoffrey Lewis, Carol C. Menassa, Vineet R. Kamat & Geoffrey Thün
Legislation and standards governing the built environment are transforming in response to the climate crisis, imperatives...
Peer Review
9.1
Social Cartographies: An Urbanism of Open Framework
by
Patricia Fraile-Garrido, Inés Martín-Robles & Luis Pancorbo
This article delves into the evolving landscape of city-making, inspired by urban visionaries from the 1960s to...
Peer Review
9.1
Indoor Video Mapping to Measure Users’ Satisfaction in Third-Place Environments
by
Habib Shahhoseini, Ziba Mousapour & Paniz Mousavi Samimi
The study evaluates users’ satisfaction in third-place environments using Narrative, Artistic, and Neutral Indoor...
Peer Review
9.1
Accounting for Other Lives in Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study in Designed Reuse and Decay
by
Cynthia Deng, Thomas Stringer, Elif Erez-Henderson & Christian Hart Nakarado
Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are essential for evaluating the environmental impact of buildings but often rely...
Peer Review
9.1
Mass Timber Cultures: Developing Welded- Wood Nail Laminated Timber (wNLT) as an Accessible and Local Building Material in North America
by
Jana VanderGoot, Abdureuf Mohammed Hussien & Sinéad Crotty
All-wood, mechanically fastened mass timber technologies provide a pathway for meeting the state and regional US...
Peer Review
9.1
Exploring Tailored Fiber Placement in Biocomposite Modular Structures
by
Jan Petrš, Evgenia Spyridonos, Paulina Grabowska, Stefan Carosella, Peter Middendorf & Hanaa Dahy
Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP) is an advanced additive manufacturing technology in which fibers are precisely stitched...
Re/Views
9.1
Critical Theory of AI
by
Simon Lindgren
With the explosive hype around AI, it is easy to forget that the term “artificial intelligence” was coined...
Re/Views
9.1
Generative Design Tools: Hallucinating with Precision
by
Tim Fu
Since founding my architectural practice, Studio Tim Fu, our team has focused on a few tools, each serving a specific...
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...
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Details+
7.2
The Resource Rows
by
Catherine Langer
The growing urbanization across many parts of the world requires prolific building materials with significant environmental...
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,...
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,...
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%...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Details+
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...
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...
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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...
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...
Details+
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Editorial
6.2
Architecting
by
Chris Ford
Since its inaugural issue in 2017, Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) has pursued its editorial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Details+
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
Editorial
6.1
Building the Historical Record
by
Scott Murray
As new architectural research is conducted in universities, laboratories, and practices, and subsequently disseminated...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Peer Review
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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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,...
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)...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Details+
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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:...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Editorial
2.1
Searching
by
Chris Ford (Associate Editor)
While addressing the World Architecture Festival in November 2017, architect Raphael Viñoly shared observations...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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,...
Re/Views
1.2
Smog Free Tower
by
Zheng Tan
Contemporary design practice and education aim to address pressing social, environmental, and technological problems....
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....
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
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...
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,...
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....
Op/Positions
2.1
Legs
by
Theo Jansen
Hurrying across a deserted beach, their many legs weaving intricate spatial patterns, Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Peer Review
1.2
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...
Peer Review
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...
Peer Review
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,”...
Peer Review
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...
Peer Review
1.2
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...
Peer Review
1.2
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...
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,...
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...
Op/Positions
1.1
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...
Op/Positions
1.1
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...
Op/Positions
1.1
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...
Op/Positions
1.1
In Service
by
Anthony Denzer
As an architectural historian interested in issues of building performance, engineering, and integrated practice,...
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...
Research Methodologies
1.1
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...
Research Methodologies
1.1
Novelty and Ownership: Intellectual Property in Architecture and Design
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Martina Decker
Throughout history, architects have prided themselves on their problem-solving skills and their ability to overcome...
Call for Papers
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VIRAL: Information Technology as Prophet, Panacea, or Pariah?
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Andrzej Zarzycki
According to Kevin Kelly, founding member of Wired magazine, technology is ubiquitous, ever present and our destiny....
Peer Review
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Virtual Environment for Design and Analysis (VEDA): Interactive and Immersive Energy Data Visualizations for Architectural Design
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Amber Bartosh & Bess Krietemeyer
Visualizing energy-based data according to multiple perspectives and performance criteria is critical to understanding...
Peer Review
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Three Experiments in Wood and Computational Design
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Marcin Wójcik
This article focuses on the relationships among material-oriented design, digital technologies, and environmentally...
Peer Review
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Robotic Control Strategies Applicable to Architectural Design
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Mathew Schwartz & Jaeheung Park
While research in robotic control has produced numerous inventions and extensions of human ability, industrial...
Peer Review
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A Mathematical Model Toward Energy Optimization with Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
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Mohamad T. Araji & Iqbal Shahid
This paper presents a new mathematical model for quantification of photovoltaics performance as a function of the...
Peer Review
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Assembling the Digital House by Hand: Lessons from Deep Engagement and Guiding the Experimental Impulse
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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....
Editorial
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Begetting
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Chris Ford
The shaping of our built environment is the result of multiple disciplines’ engagement and their respective discourses....
Re/Views
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The New ABC’s of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
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Matthew Jull
In an age of TED talks and an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, Ben Shneiderman’s The New ABCs of Research: Achieving...
Re/Views
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Research Methods for Architecture
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Rumiko Handa
Renewed interest in integrating research into design is apparent when we look at books published on the topic in...
Re/Views
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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John J. Parman
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of the tech magazine, Wired, summarizes his thoughts and theses about...
Re/Views
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Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
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Sara L. Beckman
In the past decade, “design thinking” has taken the world by storm, exhorting individuals, companies, and academic...
Call for Papers
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OPEN: Call for Papers
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Marci S. Uihlein (Issue Editor)
OPEN represents inclusion, exploration, and open-mindedness. With this issue, we direct this receptivity towards...
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Coding
Replace the gerund with the verb and coding’s architectural connotations break through. Complying with regulatory frameworks – being “to code” – is a precondition for building; for leaving the drawing board and acquiring material flesh. Writers, enactors, and enforcers of building codes negotiate the bounds of what buildings and cities can and should be within conflictual landscapes of neoliberal capitalism, political lobbying, and social and environmental crises. Coding both engenders and delimits architectural possibility through constraints, rules, minima, and maxima, that designers and architects absorb, at times begrudgingly, through curricula, licensure, and professional practice. Coding also ignites activist and speculative projects that seek to reimagine these regulatory frameworks’ protocols and sociopolitical allegiances.
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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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Circularity
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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Tectonics
The Tectonics issue investigates the intersection of structure and construction, together with the emerging research in intelligent buildings, building and material science (biomaterials, composites, assemblies), architectural kinetics, mass customization, and parametrically-driven digital fabrication and simulation. TAD is promoting research that redefines/deconceptualizes ways architecture and construction address the diverse technological, cultural, economic, and ecological imperatives of our times.
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Engineering
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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