Critic|all V International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism: Conference Proceedings

Critic|all V International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism: Book of Abstracts

Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture

Habitat became a hotly debated topic in architecture in the 1950s, when this ecological term was introduced in the avant-garde circles of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) and Team 10. Next to rethinking the housing question the notion of habitat brought a profoundly new way to conceive architecture and urban planning. No...

Repositioning Architecture in the Digital: Proceedings of the 7th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre

Publication at the occasion of the 7th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre with contributions by Georg Vrachliotis, Armin Linke, Marina Otero Verzier, Ludo Groen, Martin Kuijpers, Dirk van den Heuvel and Soscha Monteiro de Jesus.

Habitat, Ecology and System Theory

A short explanation to the archival selections from the national collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut, which focuses on historical examples of interdisciplinary exchanges between architecture, planning, ecology and system theory.

Habitat: Ecologisch Denken in de Architectuur

Bespreking van ecologische tendensen in de architectuur vanuit historisch perspectief. A discussion of ecological tendencies in architectural design, from a historical perspective.

Playscapes: An investigation into games as generative interfaces for architecture

This projects aims to understand architectural entities present in Blaak Market, Rotterdam systematically and map their relation to a geometric game. Doing so would enable the inhabitants to voice their concern by play ing an intuitive game. Beside the new approach to participatory design, the methodology adopted in this project has made the...

Tactics of the Other Everyday: From Urban Scenography to Architecture

The graduation project begins with understanding small, mundane urban scenes as scenographic settings to construct an Other world, by means of both framing and associations. Further through narratives, drawings and models, these scenographic settings are translated into architectural elements with surreal qualities, as a design methodology. The...

Space for integration: Designing Coexistence

The Netherlands, like most Western European countries, has dealt with over 94.000 refugee asylum applications since 2014. Although the number of asylum applications have lowered, almost 90% of these asylum seekers have gotten a legal status which allows them to get their own home and become part of the Dutch society. This situation provokes the...

A computational intelligence decision-support environment for architectural and building design: CIDEA

Environmentally friendly and comfortable buildings are a much sought after goal in today's architectural practice. In order to improve energy consumption of buildings without sacrificing indoor comfort, careful consideration of design decisions is needed. Simulation tools provide a solution to one aspect arising from this need, namely the...

Knowledge Model for Cultural Analogy in Design and Design Education

The role of ICT as a partner in Architectural Design Education

Artificial Intelligence for Automated Floor Plan Generation

Tools of an Integrated Software Environment for the Architectural Design Process - Concepts, Technologies and Added Value

A New Design Studio: Intelligent Objects and Personal Agents