Architecture

About: Architecture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25849 publications have been published within this topic receiving 225266 citations.

The Architecture Of The City

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Representing and encoding plant architecture: A review

Abstract: A plant is made up of components of various types and shapes. The geometrical and topological organisation of these components defines the plant architecture. Before the early 1970's, botanical drawings were the only means to represent plant architecture. In the past two decades, high-performance computers have become available for plant growth analysis and simulation, triggering the development of various formal representations and notations of plant architecture (strings of characters, axial trees, tree graphs, multiscale graphs, linked lists of records, object-oriented representations, matrices, fractals, sets of digitised points, etc.). In this paper, we review the main representations of plant architecture and make explicit their common structure and discrepancies. The apparent heterogeneity of these representations makes it difficult to collect plant architecture information in a generic format to allow multiple uses. However, the collection of plant architecture data is an increasingly important issue, which is also particularly time-consuming. At the end of this review, we suggest that a task of primary importance for the plant-modelling community is to define common data formats and tools in order to create standard plant architecture database systems that may be shared by research teams.

The ethical function of architecture

Abstract: Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and balanced arguments, Harries questions the premises on which architects and theorists have long relied -- premises which have contributed to architecture's current identity crisis and marginalization. He first criticizes the aesthetic approach, focusing on the problems of decoration and ornament. He then turns to the language of architecture. If the main task of architecture is indeed interpretation, in just what sense can it be said to speak, and what should it be speaking about? Expanding upon suggestions made by Martin Heidegger, Harries also considers the relationship of building to the idea and meaning of dwelling. Architecture, Harries observes, has a responsibility to community; but its ethical function is inevitably also political. He concludes by examining these seemingly paradoxical functions.

An Architecture for Data-to-Text Systems

Abstract: I present an architecture for data-to-text systems, that is NLG systems which produce texts from non-linguistic input data; this essentially extends the architecture of Reiter and Dale (2000) to systems whose input is raw data instead of AI knowledge bases This architecture is being used in the BabyTalk project, and is based on experiences in several projects at Aberdeen; it also seems to be compatible with many data-to-text systems developed elsewhere It consists of four stages which are organised in a pipeline: Signal Analysis, Data Interpretation, Document Planning, and Microplanning and Realisation