2007: Predicting the Future
Host: Faculty of Architecture and Civil engineering, FH Wiesbaden
Chairman: Prof. Joachim Kieferle

During 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. [more]

Web site:http://www.fab.fh-wiesbaden.de/

2006: Communicating Space(s)
Host:Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Chairman: Vassilis Bourdakis

Digital 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. [more]

Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/conference/archive/ecaade2006/

2005: Digital Design: the quest for new paradigms
Host: Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Chairman: Jose Duarte

Digital 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. [more]

Web site: http://www.ecaade.org/conference/archive/ecaade2005/

Architecture 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. [more]

Web site archive: http://www.ecaade.org/conference/archive/ecaade2004/

The 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. [more]

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

The 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. [more]

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

Several 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. [more]

Proceedings: The eCAADe 2001 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Hannu Penttilä

Web site archive: http://www.ecaade.org/conference/archive/ecaade2001/

The 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 [more]

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

A 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 [more]

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

The 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)

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 [more]

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

The 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 [more].

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

The 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)

The 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" [more].

Proceedings: The Virtual Studio proceedings are available in book format from Jean Dick at ABACUS (ISBN: 0 95 2 3687 0 6)

1993 Eindhoven: Smeltzer, G., Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design

1992 Barcelona: CAAD Instruction: The New Teaching of an Architect

1991 Munich: Pittioni, G., Experiences with CAAD in Education and Practice

1990 Budapest: No proceedings

1989 Aarhus: Agger, K.; Lentz, U., CAAD - Education Research and Practice

1987 Zurich: Kramel, H., Architectural Education and the Information Explosion

1986 Rome: Carrara, G., Teaching and Research with CAAD

1985 Rotterdam: No proceedings

1984 Helsinki: Poyry, M., eCAADe 84 - Third European Conference

1983 Brussels: De Wilde, W.P. et al., eCAADe Proceedings of the International Conference

1982 Delft: No proceedings