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Architecture
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 Nov 1984
TL;DR: It is argued that once spatial form is describable in terms of a descriptive theory, a more powerfully scientific - and architectural - understanding of function is possible.
Abstract: Scientific approaches to architecture usually avoid the issue of building form, preferring to focus on function.
But how can there be a theory of function without a systematic analysis of the key architectural variable of form?
A theory of description is required. In this paper it is argued that such a theory can be built through the analysis
of spatial form in buildings. Then once spatial form is describable in terms of a descriptive theory, a more powerfully scientific - and architectural - understanding of function is possible. The argument draws on several pieces of research carried out by the authors and their students, but focusses eventually on various types of medical building in order to illustrate certain general principles.
89 citations
TL;DR: This work explores several novel architecture concepts for the 6G era driven by a decomposition of the architecture into platform, functions, orchestration and specialization aspects, and associates an open, scalable, elastic, and platform agnostic het-cloud with converged applications and services.
Abstract: The post-pandemic future will offer tremendous opportunity and challenge from transformation of the human experience linking physical, digital and biological worlds: 6G should be based on a new architecture to fully realize the vision to connect the worlds. We explore several novel architecture concepts for the 6G era driven by a decomposition of the architecture into platform, functions, orchestration and specialization aspects. With 6G, we associate an open, scalable, elastic, and platform agnostic het-cloud, with converged applications and services decomposed into micro-services and serverless functions, specialized architecture for extreme attributes, as well as open service orchestration architecture. Key attributes and characteristics of the associated architectural scenarios are described. At the air-interface level, 6G is expected to encompass use of sub-Terahertz spectrum and new spectrum sharing technologies, air-interface design optimized by AI/ML techniques, integration of radio sensing with communication, and meeting extreme requirements on latency, reliability and synchronization. Fully realizing the benefits of these advances in radio technology will also call for innovations in 6G network architecture as described.
88 citations
01 Jan 1977
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the inexorable trend toward dependence on simulation and the problems that arise when professionals can design buildings in one part of the globe to be constructed in another part without ever seeing the site or final product in the flesh.
Abstract: Ever since the emergence of professions and trades, when most people stopped designing and building directly by hand, media have played a pivotal role in communicating to clients proposals for future environments. Virtually all major development decisions are now made on the basis of simulations. This dependence has not been without its problems. Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “When man began to draw, architecture was lost.” His own work, a lifelong effort to reestablish a direct contact between the architect and the building, by having his students learn construction and build their own living quarters, had little effect on the inexorable trend toward dependence on simulation. Today, as communications and transportation have become cheaper, for better or worse, professionals can design buildings in one part of the globe to be constructed in another part without ever seeing the site or final product in the flesh. All can be done with simulation.
88 citations