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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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TL;DR: Data analysis indicates that, particularly in the area of assembled products, production bases located in Japan are still enjoying export competitiveness in multi-skilled-labor-intensive products with integral architecture.
Abstract: This paper explores basic concepts of architecture-based comparative advantage, based on a hypothesis that dynamic fit between organizational capability in manufacturing and productprocess architecture tends to result in international competitive advantage of an industry. First, the paper discusses elements of this framework such as design-based approach to manufacturing (monozukuri in Japanese), field of manufacturing (genba in Japanese), organizational capability in manufacturing, evolution of organizational capabilities, hierarchy of competitive performance, and product-process architecture (integral, modular, closed, and open types). Evolutionally framework indicates that organizational capability in manufacturing goes through a process of multi-path system emergence, which results in uneven distribution of certain types of organizational capabilities across countries and regions. Second, we discuss the definition, classification, and measurement of productprocess architecture. Third, these components of the present framework are synthesized into a hypothesis that Japan tends to enjoy higher comparative advantage (i.e., higher export ratio) in those products with a more integral architecture. A simple statistical analysis is conducted, and the results are generally consistent with the hypothesis. As a result, our data analysis indicates that, particularly in the area of assembled products, production bases located in Japan are still enjoying export competitiveness in multi-skilled-labor-intensive products with integral architecture.

95 citations

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28 Dec 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between nature and architecture, and proposed transfer strategies and methods to transfer and apply biology's life criteria on architecture and found similarities, differences and synergies between design in nature and in architecture.
Abstract: 1 Introduction 2 Background 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Bionics [Bionik] Biomimetics 2.3 Transfer and methods 3 Classical approaches to investigate overlaps between biology and architecture 3.1 Relationship between nature and architecture 3.2 "Natural construction" 3.3 Nature's design principles 3.4 Parallels, differences and synergies between design in nature and in architecture 3.5 Biomimetics in construction and architecture 4 New approaches and application of biology's life criteria on architecture 4.1 Life, biology 4.2 Architectural interpretation of life criteria 4.3 Comments and hitherto unexplored fields 4.4 A living architecture 5 Case studies 5.1 Adaptation and evolution of traditional architecture on Nias Island 5.2 Transformation Architecture 5.3 Lunar Exploration Architecture 5.4 Biomimetic Design Proposals 6 Discussion 6.1 Transfer strategies and methods 6.2 Suggestions 7 Appendix 7.1 Literature 7.2 Figures and Photography

95 citations

Book
15 Dec 2005
TL;DR: The authors examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning; and challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding.
Abstract: This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding. Part one reflects on transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and questions accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as traditional and non-Western architecture. Part two is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, redefining modernism in a way that separates the city's architecture and society from the objectified realm of the exotic whilst acknowledging non-Western ideas of modernity. In the final part the author considers 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might call a coherent 'traditional' society and built environment.

95 citations


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