"Nowadays, the script of life is for a large part written by architects and designers. Urban planning decides how we spread our activities geographical. The design of modern residential districts determines for a large part how we communicate with each other. The design of shopp…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Civil, Architechture and Building Materials (CEABM 2014), May 24-25, 2014, Haikou, China. The 548 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: City and Building Planning, Architectural Design and…
The objective of ICOD 2010 was to provide a forum for researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials involved in the general areas of Optimization Design and Technology to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views on the future research directions…
Dealing with the advances in the art and practice of designing and building infrastructures in which the structural and architectonic values are consciously combined, this title includes abstracts and searchable full paper CD-ROM from the 3rd ICAS conference held in Guimarães, P…
The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal is dedicated to the theme "Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences". This is an outgrowth of the session by the same name which took place during the eighth international, interdisciplinary conf…
This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Cultural DNA Workshop. Contributed by prominent computational design experts in the fields of mechanical engineering and architectural design, they mainly focus on the design process; shape grammars as a valuable tool; and the anal…
