Taming the Rhinoceros: A brief history of a ubiquitous tool
September 2024
At the turn of the millennium, architects and educators, propelled by the demise of critical theory, found a space to speculate about technology’s role in the future of architecture. As Michael Speaks...
Mega (超大)
June 2024
Mega is a fitting scale to address the most urgent, interconnected issues of our time: rapid urbanization, climate change and energy use, and the loss of biodiversity. The coordination across and among...
From sign to inscription
June 2024
This paper extends the author's work on inscriptions as a new theory of contemporary architecture. Using the concept of unary trait from Lacanian theory, the paper analyses two works of architecture....
Architectural history today: Where do we stand? Where do we go?
June 2024
Originating from a keynote lecture for the EAHN 2022 Conference, this review aims at mapping the field of architectural history as it presents itself today, tracing recent evolutions and new directions....
Perspectives in computational design: A brief assessment of today's socio-technical context, promises, and challenges
June 2024
Overwhelming factual evidence proves that digital technologies are much better suited to fixing at least some of today's socio-technical problems than the obsolete mechanical technologies we inherited...
Lin Huiyin, House Beautiful, and women’s place in architectural culture in the United States in the 1920s
June 2024
Scholarly discussions of the experiences that Lin Huiyin would have had as a student in the United States between 1924 and 1928 have yet to include the experiences she might have had outside the classroom...
