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  • The Tectonics of Flimsiness

    Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural

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    Smart Colored Window Technology

    <p>Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been…

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    Growing Myceliated Facades

    <p>Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource…

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    Saving Face

    <p>In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of…

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    Digital Medium, Tangible Message

    <p>The reaches of architecture are inherently linked to the efficacy of communication, and as emerging technology broadens the conceptual horizon of…

  • BioFacades Classification

    <h3><strong>Coauthors:</strong><br /></h3> <p>Mary Ben Bonham, Department of Architecture + Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA…

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    Rethinking Building Skins

    <p>Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate…

  • Mastery of Measurement

    <p>The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing…

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    Systems Thinking

    <p>This paper surveys facade design education in accredited Bachelor and Master of Architecture (B.Arch and M.Arch) programs in the United States. A…

  • Facade Games

    This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this

  • Architectural Ceramic Assemblies

    This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

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    Teaching Facades

    <p>As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…

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    Transformation as Movement

    <p>In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of…

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    ACT Facade

    <p>Due to material and technological advancement during the last century, transparency has become a prominent trend in contemporary architecture.…

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    Shade and Spectacle

    <p>This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and…

  • Design and Energy Analysis

    <p>Integration and interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) tools pose major challenges for…

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    Towards Net Zero Enclosures

    <p>As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis.…