Host: Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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. Experiences within research communities show that the implementation of computer applications in an early stage of the architectural design process still seems to be limited. In times where architectural curricula are responding to contemporary education needs, the question of positioning computer related subjects demands a well-founded approach; an approach based on informed research, knowledge of education and issues architectural design processes. The 2003 eCAADe-conference considered a range of issues that impinge on how computers are involved in the design process.
Topics of interest for the 2003
eCAADe-conference
included but were not limited to:
• CAAD
curriculum
• City modeling
• Collaborative design
• Design creativity
• Digital design education
• Design pedagogics
• Design process
• Generative design
• Human-computer interaction
• Research, Education & Practice
• Innovation
• Precedence and prototypes
• Prediction and evaluation
• Shape studies
• Virtual architecture
• Virtual reality
• Web-based design
Web site archive: www.ecaade.org/conference/archive/ecaade2004/
Email: eCAADe2003@tugraz.at