UA is Shifting
we are moving from highly customized, experience-based design into the design for manufacturing and assembly DfMA, where buildings are designed, engineered, and produced to maximize value to the end-user with higher quality, better costs, and more
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Architecture
the fourth industrial revolution is characterized by a fusion of the physical and the digital, by the development of smart systems and artificial intelligence, and the dominance of big data
Decision Making and the Process of Design
The daily life of a designer is a series of decision-making moments, these vary in type, size, and complexity but we find ourselves continuously looking through a problem and trying to solve it by making decisions
Uncertainty, Decision Making and Design
In design, all projects often start in a state of deep uncertainty, where the designer has to experiment with many scenarios and test for the best fit in order to move on to the next stage,
The Temporary and the Permanent
The temporary is established in time yet irrelevant to space. It does not need a solid form of physical manifestation but its temporality allows forgetfulness
How Changing Perception Solves Problems
When a number of parts or particles are put together in a collection, they may retain their independence and display individual properties, or they may start to form a collective that displays behaviors and properties that
What Game Theory Means for Work Teams
Good relationships require compromises, and good business requires having the ability to see beyond immediate gains for the seller,
Entropy and Design Innovation
When a new exterior influence is introduced into an ordered low entropy system, the system will have a tendency to reject the novelty as it will be difficult to integrate within the order