The rapidity of environmental degradation and the recent popularity of the concept of sustainability have made clear how successful traditional societies have been in coexisting with nature. Architects, in responding to this rising awareness, are searching for models of the reinterpreta­ tion of tradition, seeking examples and guidelines. Three practitioners who anticipated the need for a reexa...

This research defines a method for a new engineering discipline: corporate architecture engineering. This method supports corporate architecture teams with the development, maintenance and use of a corporate architecture. The purpose of corporate architecture is to regain control over the complexity that occurs on the corporate level of organizations in which a diverse collection of infrastruct...

One of the most important issues that have absorbed the public opinion and expert community during the recent years, is the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the housing. There are several challenges related to this topic that includes the contexts of the construction, manufacturing, planning to social aspects, cultural, physical and architectural design. The thing that has a significant ...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to test a model that proposes that innovative cognitive style and self-regulation (setting priorities, planning work activities, and monitoring time and task progress) are related to the self-reported success of architects. We investigated two aspects of the success: as designers and as business people. To this end, we examined the mediating role of self-e...

Recently, Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology has attracted much attention in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Despite the growing interest in BIM technology, the benefits of BIM have not yet been fully realized during the course of implementation of BIM because of its low adoption rate among architects. Therefore, it is significant important in success...

Lucio Biggiero (Università dell’ Aquila, Italy), Pier Paolo Angelini (Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy), Mario Basevi (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy), Nunzia Carbonara (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Antonio Mastrogiorgio (Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy), Eliano Pessa (University of Pavia, Ital...