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


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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The first complete history of CIAM, an international movement whose mission was to revolutionize architecture and create an agenda for modern urbanism, was published by Mumford as mentioned in this paper, who focused on CIAM's discourse to trace the development and promotion of its influential concept of the functional city.
Abstract: The first complete history of CIAM, an international movement whose mission was to revolutionize architecture and create an agenda for modern urbanism. CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture. CIAM saw itself as an elite group revolutionizing architecture to serve the interests of society. Its members included some of the best-known architects of the twentieth century, such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Richard Neutra, but also hundreds of others who looked to it for doctrines on how to shape the urban environment in a rapidly changing world. In this first book-length history of the organization, architectural historian Eric Mumford focuses on CIAM's discourse to trace the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City." He views official doctrines and pronouncements in relation to the changing circumstances of the members, revealing how CIAM in the 1930s began to resemble a kind of syndicalist party oriented toward winning over any suitable authority, regardless of political orientation. Mumford also looks at CIAM's efforts after World War II to find a new basis for a socially engaged architecture and describes the attempts by the group of younger members called Team 10 to radically revise CIAM's mission in the 1950s, efforts that led to the organization's dissolution in 1959.

200 citations

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21 Apr 2011
TL;DR: A generic Internet of Things architecture trying to resolve the existing restrictions of current architectural models by integrating both RFID and smart object-based infrastructures, while also exploring a third parameter, i.e. the social potentialities of the Internet of Thing building blocks towards shaping the “Social Internet of things”.
Abstract: The term Internet of Things refers to the networked interconnection of objects of diverse nature, such as electronic devices, sensors, but also physical objects and beings as well as virtual data and environments. Although the basic concept of the Internet of Things sounds simple, its application is difficult and, so far, the respective existing architectural models are rather monolithic and are dominated by several limitations. The paper introduces a generic Internet of Things architecture trying to resolve the existing restrictions of current architectural models by integrating both RFID and smart object-based infrastructures, while also exploring a third parameter, i.e. the social potentialities of the Internet of Things building blocks towards shaping the “Social Internet of Things”. The proposed architecture is based on a layered lightweight and open middle-ware solution following the paradigm of Service Oriented Architecture and the Semantic Model Driven Ap-proach, which is realized at both design-time and deployment–time covering the whole service lifecycle for the corresponding services and applications provided.

199 citations

29 Sep 2009
TL;DR: Baird and Sampson Neuert as discussed by the authors were the winner of numerous design awards, including the Toronto Arts Foundation's Architecture and Design Award and the da Vinci Medal of the Ontario Association of Architects.
Abstract: George Baird is the former dean (2004-2009) of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and is a partner in the Toronto-based architecture and urban design firm Baird Sampson Neuert Architects. Prior to becoming dean at the University of Toronto, Baird was the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He is coeditor (with Charles Jencks) of Meaning in Architecture; and (with Mark Lewis) of Queues Rendezvous, Riots. He is author of Alvar Aalto and The Space of Appearance. Most recently, his researches in architectural theory have focused on the question of the political and social status of urban public space, and on debates revolving around subject of “critical architecture.” His much discussed essay “Criticality and Its Discontents” was published in the Harvard Design Magazine and his subsequent text “The Criticality Debate: Some Further Thoughts” appeared in T/A Magazine, Shanghai. Baird’s consulting firm, Baird Sampson Neuert is the winner of numerous design awards. Baird is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. In 1992, he received the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Architecture and Design Award and in 2000, the da Vinci Medal of the Ontario Association of Architects.

196 citations

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TL;DR: Kostof's A History of Architecture as mentioned in this paper is a landmark work of impressive scope, enhanced by 700 halftone illustrations and 150 drawings especially prepared by architect Richard Tobias, which includes not only the monumental religious, governmental and upper-class structures around which architectural history has usually been written but also the diversity of ordinary domestic, rural, and urban buildings, and landscapes which surround them.
Abstract: Ten years in the making, A History of Architecture ranges from the first prehistoric environments on record to the most recent examples of urban design. A landmark work of impressive scope, the book is enhanced by 700 halftone illustrations and 150 drawings especially prepared by architect Richard Tobias. Kostof's range of study includes not only the monumental religious, governmental and upper-class structures around which architectural history has usually been written but also the diversity of ordinary domestic, rural, and urban buildings, and landscapes which surround them. Moreover, Kostof evaluates Western achievement in the context of contemporary cultures elsewhere. Thus he duscusses the high points of imperial Rome along with Buddhist stupas and Han palaces, compares medieval Florence with medieval Cairo, and introduces Inca and Aztec cities as the Spanish conquistadores would have seen them. The author's premise is that buldings are conditioned by the social, economic, and political frame of their time; in this sense, Kostof concludes, the history of architecture can be considered an aspect of the history of human institutions. "Architecture, in the end," he writes, "is nothing less than the gift of making places for some human purpose." About the Author: Spiro Kostof is Professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former president of the Society of Architectural Historians and is the author of several books, among them Caves of God and The Third Rime, 1870-1950: Traffic and Glory, and editor of The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession

195 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20244
20235,088
202211,536
2021845
20201,174
20191,226