Architecture as a designerly way of thinking and knowing is to interact with its environment. The manuscript is to speculate “interactive form-generation” based on high-performance architecture theory, and discuss the precursors and the potentials. The research aims to explore and determine the roots, aspects of interactive architecture as a part of performance-based design in contemporary arch...

When we apply the mechanisms of an object-oriented language we form concrete architectures over some domain. Over time we identify recurring patterns and transform the concrete architectures into more general architectural abstractions. Such abstractions are then used in combination with the language mechanisms to form other kinds of concrete architectures in diagrams and programs: we apply a c...

The process of developing architectural forms has greatly been changed by advances in digital technology, especially in design tools and applications. In recent years, the advent of graphical scripting languages in the design process has profoundly affected 3D modeling. Scripting languages help develop algorithms and geometrical grammar of shapes based on their constituent parameters. This stud...

The idea that we can separate application content from architectural form, or style, is a mainstay of modern software engineering. Architectural styles have themselves been a subject of intensive study. The problem is that we do not yet have an adequate account of the mappings that combine choices of application description independent of style, and of architectural style independent of applica...

Recent research points out the necessity for capturing and representing architectural design decisions as a key element of Architectural Knowledge. Despite the variety of tools that allow visualization of this type of knowledge, there still remains a certain lack of maturity. We classify a set of visualization techniques according to their representation form. These techniques are analyzed cons...