By incorporating parametric surfaces and spline entities into the shape modelling computer systems, new design and production graphic tools have been created in the conceptual and poetic field of architecture; thus allowing an intuitive approach to the fast production of complex shapes with a minimum amount of data and specific knowledge. The analogous production systems (constrained by the mat...

The article presents the results of such phenomena as drawing an architect and architectural drawing, theoretical approaches methods forming project mentality by a student - through analysis teaching method to future architects leading Russian universities, built on projective analytical from nature representation. examples some tasks that form design skills graphic modeling space geometry are ...

A persistent problem in software engineering is the problem of software composition. The emergence of software architectures and architectural styles has focused attention on a new set of abstractions with which we can create and compose software systems. We examine the problem of providing a model for the composition of different architectural styles within software systems, i.e. the problem o...

The purpose of our study is to test close range photogrammetry as an engineering tool, in an architectural project for two different sites. The first is an urban site in Reims (Champagne, France), where we are studying the conversion of an eight hectares wide waste ground, left vacant following old military barracks. The second is the old malt house of Ingwiller (Alsace, France), where it is ne...

"Reality has always been interpreted through the reports given by images" (Sontag 153). The computer has fast eclipsed manual drawing as the prime source of architectural representation in architectural schools. Studios are relinquishing drawing boards, and students spend long hours in dark computer laboratories, alienated from light and the awareness of passing time. While digital media have o...

The repertoire of protein architectures in proteomes is evolutionarily conserved and capable of preserving an accurate record of genomic history. Here we use a census of protein architecture in 185 genomes that have been fully sequenced to generate genome-based phylogenies that describe the evolution of the protein world at fold (F) and fold superfamily (FSF) levels. The patterns of representat...

Our earlier research indicated the feasibility of applying the PREDIQT method for model-based prediction of impacts of architectural design changes on system quality. The PREDIQT method develops and makes use of so called prediction models, a central part of which are the “Dependency Views” (DVs) – weighted trees representing the relationships between architectural design and the quality charac...

Documentation analysis and organisation are vital to the researcher when trying to understand the evolution of patrimonial edifices and sites. Documentary sources provide partial evidences from which the researcher will infer possible scenarios on how an edifice may have been changed throughout the centuries. They are the only scientific basis from which virtual renderings can be proposed and j...

The architectural discussion of multiplicity moves beyond the preoccupation with architecture as a fixed, conclusive, and eternal entity. collection articles in this issue ARSNET investigates multidimensionality architecture. explorations span from multi-layered meaning temporalities architecture, to dynamic representation spatial operation multiplicities. Through inquiries on multiplicity-driv...