Collaborative Digital Design:: When the Architect Meets the Software Engineer

Luís Santos; José Lopes; António Leitão

Collaborative Digital Design: When the Architect Meets the Software Engineer

Luís Santos, José Lopes, António Leitão

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Abstract

Increasingly more architects use programming as a means for form finding and design exploration, a tendency that is expected to continue. Even though significant progress has been made in the simplification of programming languages, complex design tasks might still require large coding efforts. We do not think it is wise to force architects to also become experts in programming languages and software engineering. Instead, similarly to what happened with other design and building disciplines, we think that the future of digital design lies in the collaborative effort of architects and software engineers. In this paper we analyze different situations where such collaboration increases productivity and frees the architect to more creative tasks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Physicality
Editors	Henri Achten, Jirí Pavlicek, Jaroslav Hulín, Dana Matejovská
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Publication date	2012
Pages	87-96
ISBN (Print)	9789491207037
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	30th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 12 Sept 2012 → 14 Sept 2012

Conference

Conference	30th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2012
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	12/09/2012 → 14/09/2012

Series	Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Volume	2
ISSN	2684-1843

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecno-logia, under the projects PEst-OE/EEI/LA0021/2011 and PTDC/AUR-AQI/103434/2008.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2012, Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Architecture
CAD tools
Collaborative process
Design
Software Engineering

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Santos, Luís ; Lopes, José ; Leitão, António. / Collaborative Digital Design: When the Architect Meets the Software Engineer. Digital Physicality. editor / Henri Achten ; Jirí Pavlicek ; Jaroslav Hulín ; Dana Matejovská. Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, 2012. pp. 87-96 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 2).

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Collaborative Digital Design: When the Architect Meets the Software Engineer. / Santos, Luís; Lopes, José; Leitão, António.
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