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Domestic Hybrids: Vitruvius’ Xenia, the Surrealist’s Minotaure, and Shrigley’s Octopus
Open Philosophy, 2023 The domestic spaces of the built environment are traditionally associated with residential architecture. But the domestic spaces can also extend out, metaphorically, into familiar public spaces in which one may feel at home, and also extend inwards into ...
Weir Simon
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Usability as Speculum Mundi: A Core Concept in Socio-technical Systems Development
Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly, 2020 Usability covers the breadth and depth of the rich interaction of users and technology in the socio-technical context. Though the concept of usability is well established, the integration of usability thinking in system development is challenging, partly
Mikko Rajanen, Dorina Rajanen
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The Concepts of Space in the Spanish Translations of Vitruvius (1564, 1582, 1761 and 1787). Their Differences from Gottfried Semper’s Idea of Space as Developed in Der Stil (1860, 1863) [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2017 The meanings of the term ‘space’ in four translations into Spanish of De architectura by Vitruvius are analysed here in order to clarify a piece of the ‘prehistory’ of the concept of space in Architectural Theory before Gottfried Semper.
Daniel Dávila Romano
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Computational Analytical Methods for Buildings and Cities: Space Syntax and Shape Grammar
Buildings, 2023 During the first century BC, the famous Roman architect, Vitruvius, defined architecture as encompassing three essential properties: firmitas (firmness), utilitas (utility), and venustas (attractiveness or beauty) [...]
Michael J. Ostwald, Ju Hyun Lee
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Diversity and distribution of bamboo-feeding true bugs in China. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThere are 36 genera with 69 species bamboo‐feeding true bugs in China. Their spacial diversity pattern showed preference in South China, with higher diversity areas located in the tropics and its surrounding areas. Abstract The Bambusoideae subfamily, originating in the late Cretaceous, has evolved to include over 1500 species globally.
Jiang K +6 more
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, 2011 The following article takes up a dialogue that was initiated in the first issue of Design Ecologies, evolving in relation to questions of design within a context of concepts of complexity. As the first part of the article shows, this process of taking up
Westermann, Claudia
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About triangular drawing plan from vitruvius' manuscript by Lázaro de Velasco
EGA, 2016 Vitruvius trio debate about the latin terms firmitas, utilitas, venustas from Ten Books on Architecture has had its ups and downs. The influence of the tripartite schematization seems to be graphically present in a xvith century drawing by Lázaro de ...
Juan Saumell Lladó +2 more
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Giovanna Spadafora, Fondamenti e applicazioni di geometria descrittiva, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019
Diségno, 2020 The scheme of the architectural representation process, and therefore its theoretical basis, is all enclosed, even today, in the famous passage written by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, the Roman architect of the Augustan era, which takes up and fixes ...
Marco Gaiani
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KONSEPTUALISASI UTILITAS BERDASARKAN TRILOGI VITRUVIUS DI DALAM ARSITEKTUR
Nature: National Academic Journal of Architecture, 2023 Abstrak_ Studi ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui lebih dalam konsep utilitas (fungsi) berdasarkan trilogy Vitruvius di dalam arsitektur. Studi ini menggunakan kajian pustaka dengan fokus studi yaitu pada pandangan dan perspektif ahli, tokoh arsitek, serta ...
Ulfaizah Sahril Nurfadhillah +2 more
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PeristilThe sequencing of circles congruent with a (divided) column diameter – a visualization of the Vitruvian concept of a fixed module – is expanded by the inclusion, in the same scale, of geometric figures intrinsic to the ad triangulum method.
Duško Čikara
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