Computer technology has revolutionized many aspects of building
design, such as drafting, management, construction - even building
with robots. This revolution has expanded into the field of design
creativity. Presented in this book is an up-to-date, comprehensive
picture of research advances in the fast-growing field of
informatics applied to conceptual stages in the generation of
artifacts - in particular, buildings. It addresses the question how
far and in what ways creative design can be intelligently
automated.
Among the topics covered are: the use of precedents; the
relations between case-based, rule-based, and principle-based
architectural design reasoning; product typology; artifact
thesauruses; the inputting and retrieval of architectural
knowledge; the visual representation and understanding of existing
or projected built forms; empirical and analytical models of the
design process and the design product; desktop design toolkits;
grammars of shape and of function; multiple-perspective building
data structures; design as a multi-agent collaborative process; the
integration of heterogeneous engineering information; and
foundations for a systematic approach to the development of
knowledge-based design systems.
The papers provide a link between basic and practical issues: -
fundamental questions in the theory of artifact design, artifical
intelligence, and the cognitive science of imagination and
reasoning; - problems in the computerization of building data and
design facilities; - the practical tasks of building conception,
construction and evaluation. The automation of creative design is
itself considered as an engineering design problem.
The implications of current and future work for architectural
education and research in architectural history, as well as for
computer-integrated construction and the management of engineering
projects are considered.
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