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A Sustainable Alternative to Architectural Materials: Mycelium-based Bio-composites
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)In the history of architecture, technologies adapted from other disciplines have created new paradigms for design and production. During the first Industrial Revolution, for instance, developments in mechanical and material ... -
Systems Everywhere: On the Incorporation of the Vocabulary of Systems Sciences in Architectural Discourse during the Second Half of the 20th Century
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Through a consideration of well-known architectural sources, this paper will take inventory of the divergent, contradictory, and sometimes productive ways architects and architectural writers came to rely on the language ... -
Tapping into Urban Recycling for Low-cost Building Alternatives: Experimenting with Waste Cardboard Reuse in Architecture
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)The work presented in this paper is part of a research that explores upcycling waste corrugated cardboard into building components. The research focuses on developing countries where there is a vast low- income population ... -
Terminology and Geometry: Evolution of Chinese Traditional Architectural Drawing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Chinese traditional architectural drawing possessed a unique set of terminologies and geometric principles that were entirely distinguished from the Western Euclidean geometry, under the category of tu (the Chinese character ... -
The ‘Unintended’ City: A Case for Re-reading the Spatialization of a Princely City Through the 1898 Plague Epidemic
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Cities have witnessed a surge in attention from urban scholarship in what is now referred to as the ‘urban turn’ in South Asian studies. In recent years, colonial Presidency capital cities such as Bombay, Calcutta, and ... -
Weaving Fabrica and Ratiocinatio: An Inquiry into the Knowledge of Architecture in Vitruvian Theory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)This study focuses on fabrica and ratiocinatio, two fundamental components of architecture, forming the foundational framework of Vitruvian theory. Despite their significance, the Vitruvian text neither gives clear definitions ...