Abstract This article reconsiders the success of Alvar Aalto in interwar Britain through perspective P. Morton Shand. As a journalist fluent French and German, Shand introduced European Modernism to British architects. From 1930, he focused his efforts on Aalto, leading seminal exhibition Finnish designer’s furniture 1933. By viewing lens Shand, this points role critics as active participants d...

While security has long been a significant issue in military systems, the spread of the internet has stimulated a growing interest in, and increasing demand for, secure systems. Understanding how architects manage security requirements in practice is a necessary first step in providing repeatable processes using effective techniques, methods and architectural structures. We present the results ...

In 1920, Jacques Gréber published what was and still is the largest book on U.S. architecture and urban design ever issued in France. His dual agenda was to stress the impact of Beaux-Arts design methods (presenting his gardens and Philadelphia parkway as highlights of this trend), and to advocate the practical accomplishments of a pragmatic and affluent civilization. Showcasing an "edited" Nor...

In cloud computing, software applications are potentially able to use only the computing resources that are minimally needed for performant operation. Because cloud providers provision such resources on a pay-per-use basis, software architects are interested in analyzing the operational costs that accrue for such applications, allowing architects to optimize for cost-efficiency. Current analysi...

Software architecture provides the high-level design of software systems with the most critical decisions. The source code of a system has to conform to the architectural decisions to guarantee the systems’ success in terms of quality properties. Therefore, architects have to continuously ensure that architecture decisions are implemented correctly to prevent architecture erosion. This is the m...