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Architecture Diagrams: A Graphical Language for Architecture Style Specification

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Anastasia Mavridou, Eduard Baranov

Architecture styles characterise families of architectures sharing common characteristics. We have recently proposed configuration logics for architecture style specification. In this paper, we study a graphical notation to enhance readability and easiness ...

Open Publ Assoc2016

Objets risqués: le pari durable du projet d’architecture

Inès Lamunière

Inès Lamunière présente les enjeux contemporains des infrastructures intégratives, en rappelant des projets historiques du début des années 30 comme Hugh Ferris et Le Corbusier ...

2016

Modelling Architecture Styles

Anastasia Mavridou

Software systems tend to increase over time in size and complexity. Their development usually spans a long period of time and often results in systems that are hard to understand, debug and maintain. Architectures are common means for organising coordinati ...

EPFL2016

Images des microcosmes flottants

Olivier Nicolas Meystre

This research focuses on the premise that depiction is quintessential to the conception of an architectural project. The representation also provides insights regarding how the architects design the architecture. This thesis is intended towards understandi ...

EPFL2015

Configuration Logics: Modelling Architecture Styles

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Anastasia Mavridou, Eduard Baranov

We study a framework for the specification of architecture styles as families of architectures involving a common set of types of components and coordination mechanisms. The framework combines two logics: 1) interaction logics for the specification of arch ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2015

Ingenious Architecture: Usage and knowledge in Furetière’s Lexicography

Caroline Dionne

For 17th century lexicographer and writer Antoine Furetière, the terms pertaining to all arts and sciences are the mortar that holds together the edifice of language. In that sense, Furetière’s language is founded in large part upon the words used to descr ...

2014

Celebrating Contrast and Daylight Variability in Contemporary Architectural Design: A Typological Approach

Marilyne Andersen, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

The perceptual performance of architecture can be greatly altered by the ephemeral quality of daylight. Unlike artificial light sources, which can be adjusted to meet performance criteria regardless of geographic location and time of day, daylight is a var ...

2013

Wholesale architecture in southern Europe despite architects

Olga Moatsou

Speculative architecture has been excluded from architectural circles and critical praise. It is a wholesale product, repeatedly referred to as passe-partout, anonymous, banal, vulgar and kitsch. Specifically, contemporary residential architecture in south ...

2013

Contemporary Architecture of Iran

Notions of identity, culture, tradition and history are key to understanding the contemporary architecture of Iran. Darab Diba explains how the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 broke with an approach that for almost two centuries had d ...

2012

Learning from vernacular : towards a new vernacular architecture

Pierre Frey

Taking advantage of a collection of models of vernacular architecture (the only one of its kind in the world), whose special attributes he highlights and whose value he thus underlines, the author selects contemporary realisations by architects from Africa ...

Actes Sud2010