TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

After almost 3 years, a couple of rejections, and plenty of revisions, my first research project is now my last publication of the year—published in TAD: TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN Journal. 'GreenPlotter: An AI-Driven Low-Carbon Design Algorithm for Land Partitioning and Sustainable Urban Development' This study explores using #carbon_sequestration metrics to optimize greener #urban_design solutions through #genetic_algorithms. Grateful to Amirhosein Delavar, kianoush Suzanchi, and Karla Saldaña Ochoa and EVERYONE who supported this project along the way. The fourth publication in 2024! That’s all. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eVkQ8RRv #ArchitectureResearch #BuildingTechnology #Intelligent_Land_Partitioning #Sustainable_Development #Low_Carbon_Design #Genetic_Algorithm #Generative_Design #Urban_Planning #Decision_Support_Systems #Urban_Green_Areas

Anna-Maria Meister's "Coded Objects" casts coded-ness as a method for studying objects as “intentionally shaped matter” placing questions of agency, responsibility, and the aesthetic articulation of values at the epicenter of design-as-coding. Meister writes: "Shaping things is often masked by rhetorics of necessity or promise. Still, given the global circulation of images and objects, the  embedded design of information, form-giving operations, and the matter of design, these demand closer scrutiny. My framing of coded objects as methods, not categories, aims to carve out discourses of responsibilities, aspirations, and techniques of forming values through aesthetic means." Visit https://lnkd.in/gBt2yUgC to read the full piece.⁠ (Image Credit: HfG Archiv, Museum Ulm) ⁠ #TAD #technology #architecture #design #journal #peerreview #research #publication #coding #computercode #buildingcode #control #agency #designhistory #codedness #materialculture #op/positions

In "The Geo-Scopic Drive" media theorist and historian of science Bernard Geoghegan identifies inquiry into the conditions of what he terms the “geo-scopic drive” as a generative riddle for interdisciplinary inquiry across architecture and media studies. He writes: "Today, technologies like geotagging submit computer graphics and mobile media to a relentless geospatial addressability on a planetary scale. A new regime of planetary visibility is increasingly associated with digital and visual technologies. And to call [the geo-scopic] a drive is to acknowledge that we are not dealing with a contingent and incidental accumulation of details about time and space in our media technologies, but rather a globalizing imperative, bordering on techno-libidinal compulsions, that today aligns the act of seeing with techniques of planetary addressability." Visit https://lnkd.in/gmwye3GB to read the full piece.⁠ (Image Credit: US Department of Defense) ⁠ #TAD #technology #architecture #design #journal #peerreview #research #publication #coding #computercode #buildingcode #control #agency #planetary #geoscopic #addressability #mediastudies #op/positions

Peggy Deamer's "Codes of Ethics" shows us coding in action: we read about how legal battles between the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the United States Department of Justice shaped the AIA’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, about ongoing efforts by Deamer, Thomas Fisher, and Victoria Beach to expand the code’s limited views on ethics toward environmental and social aspirations; and about financial and organizational obstacles around the enforceability of an aspirational code of ethics. Deamer invites us to action: "All architectural workers—licensed or not, firm owners or employees, AIA members or not—must participate in an open and shared dialogue about what ethical codes would and could best capture an identity in contemporary society of which we architects can be proud." Visit https://lnkd.in/eZUjesF8 to read the full piece.⁠ ⁠ #TAD #technology #architecture #design #journal #peerreview #research #publication #coding #computercode #buildingcode #control #agency #ethics #aia #op/positions

In "Variegated Coding" Issue Editor Theodora Vardouli invites us to think of coding as a concept and practice that crosses informational and legislative registers. Coding foregrounds the design of frameworks of control in architecture and design and centers architects’ agency in shaping and operating them. The issue's six solicited pieces, she suggests, offer a kaleidoscopic view of codes through ethics, craft, historical and critical inquiry, drawing, and machine learning helping us think through the question "If architecture runs on code, then who does the coding?" ⁠ Visit https://lnkd.in/esSwtX-b to read the full editorial for free with open access. ⁠ #TAD #technology #architecture #design #journal #peerreview #research #publication #coding #computercode #buildingcode #control #agency #editorial

TAD 8:2 Coding is now online! We have an incredible lineup of authors with contributed pieces on coding's intersections with ethics, planetary media, design history, craft, representation, and machine learning. Amazing collaborating work with TAD's editorial team: Issue Editor: Theodora Vardouli Associate editors: Patricia Kio and Dimitris Papanikolaou Big thanks to the Editorial Board, Design Editor David Newton, and TAD Executive Editor Winifred Newman. Published by Taylor & Francis⁠

In "Translations from Coding to Reality" TAD Executive Editor Winifred Newman weaves together episodes of codification in the natural sciences and social sciences to suggest that coding is an inherently ethical and aesthetic act.     Visit https://lnkd.in/euFkd9_p to read the full editorial for free with open access.⁠ ⁠ #TAD #technology #architecture #design #journal #peerreview #research #publication #coding #computercode #buildingcode #control #agency #editorial

The next issue of TAD, titled "Coding," just dropped. Thanks to Theodora Vardouli and the respective TAD: Coding Editorial Team who delivered this issue for the benefit of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture membership and the Taylor & Francis Group readership.

TAD 8:2 Coding is now available! I had an exciting and engaging experience serving as an Associate Editor for this Issue. Happy reading !!!

We are excited to announce that TAD 8:2 “Coding” is now available online!⁠ ⁠ This issue grapples with analogies, fusions, collusions, and bifurcations between building and computer codes, with an eye on how architects define and operate within frameworks of control. Visit https://lnkd.in/eTJ5w5tP to browse the issue and share with a colleague!⁠ ⁠ Issue Editor: Theodora Vardouli Associate editors: Patricia Kio and Dimitris Papanikolaou ⁠ Published by Taylor & Francis Group ⁠ #TAD #technology #architecture #design #journal #peerreview #research #publication #coding #computercode #buildingcode