To remain competitive, organizations are challenged to make informed and feasible value-driven design decisions in order to ensure the quality of their software systems. However, there is a lack of support for evaluating the economic impact of these decisions with regard to software reference architectures. This damages the communication among architects and management, which can result in poor...

The value of architecture in a corporate information technology environment lies in guidance on technology choice and system design. Underlying this is the ability of the architecture team to research the relevant architectural domains well, to formulate informed strategies, to document these explicitly, and to guide projects in their application. To do this, architects must make decisions betw...

the architectural education along the way of creativity has often involved with the formal and physical aspects of design as an effort to read architectural artifacts through its mere external appearances. this article, however, aims to step beyond the manifestation of conventional perspectives on visual aspects of built environment. that is, an act of interpreting the architectural spaces thro...

The focus of this paper is the implementation of web-based data platforms for CAAD research and education. This review is based on three case studies that use different software environments for the creation of the specified data platforms: eCAADe/FileMakerdatabases, ACADIA/CAMEO-WebObjects environment and SciX/WODA-language.

This paper introduces the concept of cognition-based CAAD. Protocol analysis and a content-oriented coding scheme are utilised to produce cognitive results of designers’ behaviour. This empirical analysis suggests that the speed of thought and vagueness among actions are the main areas to be supported by any cognition-based CAAD system. Three different modes of design thinking are presented as ...

resiliency is an emerging concept in urban design which fosters new thinking about designing less vulnerable and more flexible cities. from chicago and san francisco which recovered from big fires in the nineteenth century, berlin and beirut which survived wars in the twentieth century, and new orleans which - in the face of its geologic and hydrologic limitations - is re-emerging from the hurr...

This article presents the basic design course applications based on education of first-year interior architecture students. study aims to emphasize importance in design-oriented thinking process with practice through content course. Within scope study, art-based research was carried out and intersections its results are described. In studio, elements principles were conveyed techniques commonly...