Railways in the urban context: An architectural discourse

Railway and city have coexisted for more then 150 years. The realization of railroads in the 19th century can be seen as an important contribution to the development of the city. But during the making of railroads there was too little consideration for the overall picture of the city. The result is that today the railway is entangled with the...

Collaborative architectural design in virtual reality

In this PhD research a method and software prototype is developed for COLlaborative Architectural Design In VIRtual reality. The method consists of developing versions of a concept for a building and the evaluation of them with criteria. Every team member makes his own versions; otherwise they would destroy each others work. They can evaluate...

Avant-garde between east and west: Modern architecture and town-planning in the Urals 1920-30

On hearing the term "Soviet modernism", images of Moscow and Leningrad spring to mind. These two cities may compete with each other for the title of the Russian modernist paradigm. Meanwhile little attention has been paid to the developments in more remote areas of Russia. Apparently, the Ural region played a remarkable role in the history of...

Managing collaborative design

Collaborative design has been emerging in building projects everywhere. The more complex a building project becomes, the closer and more intensive collaboration between the design actors is required. This research focuses on collaborative design in the conceptual architecture design phase, especially during the elaboration of the masterplan and...

De stad als architectonische constructie: Het architectonisch discours van de stad (Duitsland 1871-1914)

The city as an architectural construction: The architectural discours on the city At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century a paradigm shift took place within German architectural thinking that can be identified as a turn to the city. Whereas throughout the 19th century architectural knowledge was primarily directed to questions of style of...

Reweaving UMA: Urbanism Mobility Architecture

The immediate context of this book is the changing theoretical debate within and around mobility. After decades of stagnation into quantitative problem-solving approaches and models of functional organisation the discourse on mobility is now taking its moves - once again - from within the fields of urban design and architecture. However,...

Automation in Architectural Photogrammetry: Line-Photogrammetry for the Reconstruction from Single and Multiple Images

Architectural photogrammetry has been practised for more than a century for the documentation of cultural heritage. Nowadays, the emphasis is on the construction of computer models for virtual reality applications. Since the introduction of the computer, and later the digital camera, research in photogrammetry aims at automation. This thesis...

Interorganisational design; a new approach to team design in architecture and urban planning

Antoni Gaudi, een weg tot oorspronkelijkheid. Bd. 2. Illustraties

Antoni Gaudi, een weg tot oorspronkelijkheid