2011: Respecting Fragile Places

Host: Ljubljana, Slovenia, 21st- 24th September 2011

Chairman: Tadeja Zupancic

The main topics of the conference are recognition, development and encouragement of virtual space design which in a consequence respect the problematic of sensitive and even fragile places of our physical and virtual surroundings.

Web site: http://www.fa.uni-lj.si/ecaade2011

2010: Future Cities

Host: ETH Hönggerberg campus, Zurich, Switzerland

Chairman: Frédéric Bosché

For the first time in human history, more than 50% of the world’s population lives in urban regions. Cities are the largest, most complex, and most dynamic man-made systems. They are vibrant centers of cultural life and engines that drive the global economy.

Contemporary cities are environmentally, socially, and economically unsustainable. The quality of urban life is threatened by such factors as pollution, rising temperatures, limited resources, congestion, social inequalities, aging of large sectors of the world population, poverty, informality, crime, and economic imbalances. The overall planning of future cities is a challenge that can only be faced by interdisciplinary teams combining multitudes of backgrounds and expertise.

The focus of the eCAADe 2010 conference is that of tools, methods, and theories that support the new design of new cities and the transformation of existing cities. Authors are encouraged to submit their most recent research, teaching, practice and experience reports, or novel applications relating to topics of the eCAADe 2010 conference.

Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2010/

2009: Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design

Host: Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Taskisla Campus

Chairman: Prof. Gülen Cagdas and Assoc. Prof. Birgül ColakogluIn the field of architecture, Computational Design has emerged as sub-discipline which has a multidisciplinary nature and uses computing methods and capabilities to understand and solve architectural design problems. Computational Design aims to provide means for harnesing more deliberate and conscious ways of computing processes in design.

Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2009/

2008: architecture ‘in computro’

Host: The Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences, Henry van de Velde

College of Design Sciences, University of Antwerpen

Chairman: Prof. M. MuylleFor more than 25 years CAAD has been available and more and more successfully used in research and the commercial Architectural practice. Is CAAD a part of design teaching or is it its logical successor in a global E-topia? The integration of CAAD education in the wider field of research and design topics will make it at least greater than the sum of its parts and could be the key to boosting this technology for the future.

Web site: http://www.ecaade08.be/

2007: Predicting the Future

Host: Faculty of Architecture and Civil engineering, FH Wiesbaden

Chairman: Prof. Joachim KieferleDuring the last four decades, designers have utilized information and communication technologies for creating environmental representations in order to communicate spatial concepts or designs and for enhancing spaces, as contexts for mediated communication.

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Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2007/

2006: Communicating Space(s)

Host:Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Chairman: Vassilis BourdakisDigital tools can support the whole design process from the early phases through to final production. They enable the project participants to gain a better understanding of ideas and issues throughout all project phases.The focus of the eCAADe 2007 conference was that of tools and methods that support the whole range of participants from laymen to specialists in communicating, planning, costing and realizing built projects in all of the architectural fields.

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Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2006/

2005: Digital Design: the quest for new paradigms

Host: Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Chairman: Jose DuarteDigital Design: the quest for new paradigms

As the field of computer-aided design evolved over the last thirty years or so, it has witnessed five changes of emphasis in research direction.

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Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2005/

2004: Architecture in the Network Society

Host: The School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Chairman: Henning OrbakArchitecture as a part of society is changing both from within and under the influence of new paradigms relating to other disciplines: scientific, economical, social, cultural and political.The eCAADe 2004 conference focused on the *dialog and sharing of knowledge* between architects and other disciplines, and reflected on, new methods in the design process to enhance and improve the impact of information technology on architecture.Information and technology narrows the gap between architecture and related disciplines. It promotes *interdisciplinary work*, and changes both the way we do design and the design results. The eCAADe 2004 conference reflected this.

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Web site archive: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2004/

2003: Digital DesignHost: Graz University of Technology, Austria

Chairman: Dr. Wolfgang DokonalThe 2003 eCAADe-conference considered a range of issues that impinge on how computers are involved in the design process. There is no question any longer about whether the computer can be used as an effective tool in creating and producing architecture. However, drafting and visualisation are still the dominant applications in architecture. The power of the computer as a design tool and as a design stimulator has still to be fully exploited.

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Proceedings: The eCAADe 2003 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Dr. Wolfgang Dokonal

Web site archive: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2003/

2002: Connecting the Real and the Virtual

Host: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Chairman: Stefan WronaThe 2002 eCAADe conference theme focused on the wide sphere of two overlapping design worlds: the real and the virtual. As the sphere of CAAD continues to expand, the question of how these worlds can be effectively and creatively inter-related will be raised and explored.

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Proceedings: The eCAADe 2002 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Stefan Wrona

2001: Architectural information management

Host: Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)

Chairman: Hannu PenttiläSeveral common phrases, such as ”information society” or ”virtual reality” point out the fact that information technology, digital tools and numerous different services via various communication networks have become crucially important factors of our western lifestyle and living environment. The trends of the society afflects naturally also to the working environments of the construction field, architectural discipline among them. It is rather obscure to even imagine an architect of without PC-based tools anymore.

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Web site archive: http://www.ecaade.org/prev-conf/archive/ecaade2001/

2000: Promise and Reality

Host: Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Faculty of Architecture

Chairman:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk DonathThe 18th eCAADe conference and the 15th IKM (International Colloquium on the Application of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering) were held together in Weimar. We wanted to use this extraordinary possibility to bring experiences and ideas from experts in these strongly interweaved fields together and to establish a creative athmosphere

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Proceedings: The eCAADe 2000 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Dirk Donath

1999: Architectural Computing: From Turing to 2000

Host: CAADRU, University of Liverpool, UK

Chairman: Andy Brown, Mike Knight and Phil BerridgeA few years ago there was discussion at a broad range of Architectural CAD Conferences about the ‘paradigm shift’ that either appeared to be happening or was being positively promoted. If we look back over the previous five years at that shift there is certainly evidence of a change in the nature and goals of CAAD education and research.

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Proceedings: The eCAADe 1999 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Andy Brown

1998: Computer Craftsmanship in Architectural Education

Host: Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Val de Marne, France.

Chairman: Mikhael Porada, Nader Boutros and D. ClayssenThe conference considered the idea of the importance of craftsmanship in the various roles in which computers are currently applied to the arcitectural processes. Three sub-themes were identified as a was of catagorising contributions. The se were IT and Education; IT and Research, IT and Design. The conference was bilingual with translations from English to French and vice versa.

Proceedings: The Paris conference proceedings are available in CD-ROM format from Mikhael Porada (ISBN 0 9523687 4 9)

1997: Challenges of the Future

Host: Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Chairman: Bob Martens, Helena Linzer and Andreas Voigt.This conference focussed on new challenges in Digital Design Process, Spatial Modeling and Collaborative Teamwork and their promotion of new directions for computation in the design professions resp. their relationship to the educational function.

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Proceedings: The Vienna conference proceedings are available in CD-ROM format from Bob Martens (ISBN 0 9523687 3-0)

1996: Education for Practice

Host:School of Architecture, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Chairman: Jonas af Klercker, Anders Ekholm and Sverker FridqvistThe theme of the conference ‘Education for Practice’ reflects the current situation where newly graduated architects are expected to have a working knowledge of CAD. However the schools of architecture often have difficulties in getting CAD into the curriculum as there are a lot of other things which new architects should know. Very few of the architecture faculty know enough about CAAD to understand that it may also be used to improve education within their own field of knowledge.

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Proceedings: The Lund conference proceedings are available in book format from Jonas af Klercker (ISBN 0 9523687 2 2)

1995: Multimedia and Architectural Disciplines

Host: Dipartimento di Progetto e Construzione Edilizia, Universita di Palermo, Italy.

Chairman: Benedetto Colajanni and Giuseppe PellitteriThe rapid development of the potentialities of multimedia imposes a reflection about its use in teaching architecture. Multimedia is multifaceted and each facet deserves a particular attention inasmuch as it can change the traditional approach to learning.

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Proceedings: The Palermo conference proceedings are available in book format from Benedetto Colajanni (ISBN 0 9523687 1 4)

1994: The Virtual Studio

Host: ABACUS, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, UK

Chairman: Tom Maver, Jelena Petric and Jean DickThe 1994 conference was hosted by ABACUS at the University of Strathclyde and attended by, at that time, a record number of 130 delegates. For the first time in the series of ECAADE Conferences the word “virtual” featured in the title and had significant relevance to the way in which the conference was organised: the main lecture hall hosted the “real” presentations while an identical lecture hall located directly below, hosted the “virtual” presentations relayed simultaneously in sound and video from “above”

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