Advances in the Integration of Technology and the Built Environment

This open access book will be a compilation of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Architecture Across Boundaries (AAB2024). The work focuses on novel integration of technology into the built environment in the areas of space syntax, digital fabrication, computational design, professional models, eco-system and urban morphology domains. The content makes valuable contributions to academic researchers and educators in the university and practitioners in the industry, who have been working in or with a particular awareness of the different types of boundaries, including technological, cultural and physical boundaries in the research on built environments. This book will work as a good reference for academics and professionals conducting interdisciplinary research in an effort to understand and achieve a better hybrid environment.

Dr. Jiawen Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou. She earned her PhD in architecture from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and authored the book China’s Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market (Routledge, 2018). She published monographs, edited volumes, and journal articles that situate architecture in a transnational culture. Her research interests range from new architecture and architects in China and Asia to urban development in relation to technological and cross-cultural influences.

Dr. Davide Lombardi is a chartered architect and scholar, holding a degree in Architecture with honors (BA+MA, Università degli Studi Gabriele d’Annunzio) and a Ph.D. degree in Architecture (School of Advanced Studies Gabriele d’Annunzio). His research has been published in books, journals and conference proceedings via key-note speeches in international universities (Oxford-Brookes Rome Visiting School, Nanjing University, Beijing Institute of Fashion and Technology, Royal University of Bhutan, UDLAP Puebla). He has been awarded a number of national and international grants for his research (Italy, Scotland, China). Teaching-wise, he is the supervisor of several PhD candidates in XJTLU and UoL, Module Leader for the M/Arch final year project and delivers lectures for multiple modules within the BEng program. As a professional, he collaborates with various architecture firms on large-scale international projects and small design proposals in different countries (Italy, China, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Greece, Serbia).

Dr. Alessandro Cece is an Associate Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University's Design School. He holds a PhD in Architectural and Urban Design from S.U.N. Italy and an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning in New York City, USA. With collaborations alongside renowned architect Peter Eisenman As an author and designer, he has published for several international publishers. Dr. Cece's teaching experience spans across various institutions in Europe, the USA, the Middle East, and China. His research interests encompass architectural and urban design, as well as typological studies.