Value literally means to assess the worth of something against something else. The importance ofthe assessment of this word in the economic areas in a few past years has led the recognition of urban values especiallyin their historical parts. It is hypothesis that recognition, assessment, and introducing the existing values in historicalcities have a direct relationship with the selection of th...

The extraction of printed designs and woven patterns from textiles is formulated as a pixel labelling problem. Algorithms based on Markov random field (MRF) optimisation and reestimation are described and evaluated on images from an historical fabric archive. A method for quantitative evaluation is presented and used to compare the performance of MRF models optimised using α−expansion and itera...

Morphological analysis of urban fabric is a relevant step in order to perform the analysis of urban dynamics and to simulate their evolutions. In this context, the objective of this paper is to test to test two relational data mining methods (Cardinalisation and Quantiles) to label urban blocks and to produce rules on their morphology. The objective is to automate the identification of urban fa...

The method proposed is derived from a parametric workflow that employs the precision of 6-axis robots and the flexibility of fabric to rapidly create a fabric formwork. Complex geometries can be cost-effectively executed in a precise digital to physical workflow. Conventional concrete casting techniques are labor-intensive, material-intensive and inaccurate, making them unsustainable and ineffi...

In a recent essay reviewing the historical works on women in politics and work, Elaine Tyler May, a perceptive social historian, argued that women’s history in general is flourishing. She based her judgment on a course correction, a change in direction, which the sub-discipline had reflected during the last few years. Once its task had been to “uncover women’s buried past and place the female e...