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Architecture
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TL;DR: These days, the authors read editorials about their industry that go something like this: "The maturi ty of the computer business is at hand."
Abstract: These days, we read editorials about our industry that go something like this: \"The maturi ty of the computer business is at hand. CBEMA predicts 9.7% revenue growth for the 1990's, down from 15.8% in the 70's and 12.8% in the 80's. The minicomputer manufacturers are moribund. The mainframe manufacturers are hurriedly refashioning themselves as integrators of vertically marketed 'open systems.' The term 'proprietary architecture' has become pejorative. For computer designers, the revolution is over and only 'fine tuning' remains.\
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17 Sep 2007
TL;DR: This paper describes how an infrastructure of federated architectural learning repositories will provide unique, integrated access facilities for high quality architectural content and ensures easy integration and re-combinability of contents, metadata and functionalities.
Abstract: Education in architecture requires access to a broad range of learning materials to develop flexibility and creativity in design. The learning material is compromised of textual and visual media including images, videos, description of architectural concepts or projects, i.e. digital artifacts on different aggregation levels. The repositories storing such information are not interrelated and do not provide unified access so that retrieval of architectural learning objects is cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper, we describe how an infrastructure of federated architectural learning repositories will provide unique, integrated access facilities for high quality architectural content. The integration of various types of content, usage, social and contextual metadata enables users to develop multiple perspectives and navigation paths that support experience multiplication for the user. A standards-based, service-oriented software architecture, and flexible user interface design solutions, based on embeddable widgets, ensure easy integration and re-combinability of contents, metadata and functionalities.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the field of urban design is vague because it is an ambiguous amalgam of several disciplines, including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and civil engineering.
Abstract: The paper begins with a critique of contemporary urban design: the field of urban design is vague because it is an ambiguous amalgam of several disciplines, including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and civil engineering; it is superficial because it is obsessed with impressions and aesthetics of physical form; and it is practised as an extension of architecture, which often implies an exaggerated emphasis on the end product. The paper then proposes a meaningful (i.e. truly consequential to improved quality of life) approach to urban design, which consists of: being teleological (i.e. driven by purposes rather than defined by conventional disciplines); being catalytic (i.e. generating or contributing to long-term socio-economic development processes); and being relevant (i.e. grounded in first causes and pertinent human values). The argument is illustrated with a number of case studies of exemplary urban designers, such as Michael Pyatok and Henri Ciriani, and urban design projects, such as Horton Plaza and Aranya Nagar, from around the world. The paper concludes with an outline of future directions in urban design, including criteria for successful urban design projects (e.g. striking aesthetics, convenient function and long-term impact) and a proposed pedagogical approach (e.g. interdisciplinary, in-depth and problem-driven).
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