Computer-Mediated Briefing for Architects - Hardcover

Koutamanis, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466646470 ISBN 13: 9781466646476

Publisher: Engineering Science Reference, 2013

Synopsis

With the growing significance of the end-user in architecture, the subject of briefing is a re-emerging one in architectural education. Various types of computer programs and database management systems have aided in the organization and utilization of brief information as a framework for designing and identifying potential improvements.

Computer-Mediated Briefing for Architects overviews the possibilities and limitations offered by various types of computer programs, such as database management systems, diagramming software, CAD, and BIM. This book offers a practical approach in the accommodation of these programs and is an essential reference for architectural educators, students, and practitioners with hands-on experience in either compiling briefs or using the briefs for design.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Koutamanis is an associate professor of computational design at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and received his PhD from Delft University of Technology for research into the automated recognition of architectural drawings. He has worked as an architect, consultant, researcher, and also as a teacher. His research interests include representation, visualization, perception, analysis, typology, and information management.

Review:

Koutamanis (computational design, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) seeks to create a link between architectural design briefs and concrete actions in a transparent way that explains what designers can do and why. He argues that developing briefs in detail and connecting them explicitly to design presupposes an intelligent partnership between architects and computers that makes the whole enterprise efficient and reliable by building on the particular strengths of each partner. He covers briefing and computerization, the brief as information system, visual databases, expressing briefs spatially as graphs, relationship matrices, brief and design, feedforward, feedback, constraints, analysis and simulation, and the future of computer-mediate briefing. --Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Engineering Science Reference
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1466646470
• ISBN 13: 9781466646476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321