Buildings of an industrial nature dated from the 1950s through '80s are often quite interesting from the standpoint of typology, architecture and technology, and correspond to the development of technological industrial efforts of that era.
Lenka Popelová +3 more
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Analysis of Application Scenarios of Electronic Decision Theater in the Military Field [PDF]
The Decision Theater(DTs) is an immersive collaborative decision-making visualization solution, which plays a very important role in improving the scientific level of decision making.
Zhang Xian, Xue Qi
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Putting the User First? A pioneering Scottish experiment in architectural research [PDF]
This article traces the story of a unique Scottish experiment in Modernist architectural research in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: the Architecture Research Unit of Edinburgh University, one of the leaders in the UK's post-war efforts to expand the ...
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Corporate ecologies of business travel : working towards a research agenda. [PDF]
International business travel has always been an important labour process in the accumulation of capital for the firm. It is surprising, therefore, that relatively little time has been devoted to the study of business travel, both as a facet of ...
Ben Derudder +17 more
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Field training is a link between architectural education and professional practice. Is it also true from the point of views of students of the Architecture and Planning Faculty at King Saud University in Riyadh? This is the main question that this study seeks to answer.
Ali Mohamed Ajlan +1 more
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Public tendering and green procurement as potential drivers for sustainable urban development: Implications for landscape architecture and other urban design profession [PDF]
This paper examines whether green public procurements are potential drivers for the development of a landscape architecture professional field in urban design.
A. Leger, J. Salanie, W. Oueslati
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A Unit of Homemaking: The Prefabricated Panel and Domestic Architecture in the Late Soviet Union
This article investigates the role of an iconic Soviet material — the concrete prefabricated panel — in the making of late-Soviet urban residential architecture.
Kateryna Malaia
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The use and evaluation of a simulation game to teach professional practice skills to undergraduate Architecture students [PDF]
Architects are currently grappling to exploit new forms of communication made possible with developments in internet communication. At the same time, the construction industry is in a state of flux as novel project management systems are being introduced.
Agapiou, A.
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Latin American Architectural Collectives in the 21st Century: Re-evaluating Professional Approaches
In Latin America the first decades of the 21st century have witnessed the emergence of teams that work in direct contact with communities, suggesting in the process new approaches to the traditional role of the architect that have tended to blur the ...
Florencia Blázquez
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On the question of leadership: the postwar Department of Education and Research at the AIA
In 1946 the American Institute of Architects established a Department of Education and Research (E&R), under architect Walter A. Taylor. The name given the new department signaled the importance of research for architecture, and the AIA’s intended ...
Avigail Sachs
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