Host: Bauhaus-Universitat
Weimar, Faculty
of Architecture
Chairman: Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Dirk Donath
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.
The conference aimed to discuss and highlight the actual situation in applied computer science, this orientation should have been strictly embedded in a discussion with the software industry, with software developers and computer users in practice following the topic proposed above. Contributions were therefore welcome from researchers who are actively investigating mathematic and computer science for the building and urban design, planning or construction process though not limited to: architects, civil engineers, computer scientists, designers, mathematicians, engineers, philosophers and social scientists.
This conference was looking for papers and contributions which reflect the state of the art from a critical point of view, combined with realistic concepts or dream-like visions for solutions. It should have been not only a simple disaffirmation or unsubstantiated critique of unsatisfied developers or users! One aim was to confront the conference participants with misleading approaches. The participants should have been able to learn from mistakes too. Topics for submitted papers could include, but were not limited to those at www.uni-weimar.de/ecaade . Any other related theme was be possible to discuss in form of round table participation if enough interests exist.
Proceedings: The eCAADe 2000 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Dirk Donath.