SOHO Architects Research Notes

About a century ago, the modernist architect and theorist Adolf Loos declared that applied ornament was a retrograde, even criminal, waste o...

It is all too easy, when looking at a finished project, product, or building, to forget that it took a massive effort to reach that point of...

“We are teaching performance but no competence to produce meaning. Parametric design today offers infinite options, but contemporary archite...

NEC3 contracts NEC was first published in 1993 as the New Engineering Contract. It is a suite of construction contracts intended to promot...

JCT contracts The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) was formed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) In 1931 when the first JCT...

Many building processes still involve sub-standard working conditions and are not compellingly sustainable. Current research on the integrat...

[CAD Note]  AEC (UK) BIM Protocol Implementing UK BIM Standards for the Architectural, Engineering and  Construction industry. Version ...

[CAD Note]  BIM levels Level 0 BIM Unmanaged computer aided design (CAD) including 2D drawings, and text with paper-based or electronic ...

[CAD Note] According to Laiserin and others, the first implementation of BIM was under the Virtual Building concept by Graphisoft's Ar...

Departures from basic geometries in architecture have historically often coincided with the development of new materials. This correlation i...

The practice of architecture is and will remain primarily an information system, but architecture within this given phase of modern process ...

[CAM Note] Additive Manufacturing. With Additive Manufacturing parts are built by melting thin layers of powder. Material is added instead o...

[CAM note] Optimization in Paneling Architectural Freeform Surfaces. The emergence of large-scale freeform shapes in architecture poses big...

The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is an international non-profi...

We live in the world of a sad separation that began some five hundred years ago when art and science split apart. Scientists and technicians...

[CAM note]  " 3D printers shape up to lead the next technology gold rush. A number of young companies are racing to corner the burgeo...

"Viewed against the backdrop of epochal changes registered in industrial technology, architectural technology, since late modernism, ...

[CAM-CAD note] "SHoP designed the exterior of the building in CATIA, which allowed them to deconstruct the model into its fabrication...

Typically two critical concerns are voiced regarding the research presented by SAI. The first concern relates to the manufacturing and assem...

In design, architecture and many other disciplines, Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) fabrication equipment has given designers unprece...

[CAM Note] From 3D formwork drawings to CNC milling. The specifications and two-dimensional drawings normally employed in construction of b...

[CAD note] Computational design lends itself to an integral design approach as it enables employing complex behaviour rather than just mod...

"The relationship between biology and building is now in need of clarification due to real and practical exigencies. The problem of env...

[CAD/CAM organisational issues] The advanced descriptive, analytical and communicative capabilities of digital tools are encouraging their...

[CAM Note] Shaping the glazing unit. Gravitational bending. This manufacturing technique is generally based on the production of a mould t...

Technical Visualisations and Animations – which constitute a communication platform between architects and the other project participants ...

  [CAD Note] Structure as set of data. A basic tenet of engineering holds that before acting, one should always integrate a more fundament...

Interesting note about Standards: - The British Engineering Standards Association was founded in 1902, - The German national equivalent wa...

Once, as "master builders" architect both designed and built structures. However, architects relinquished their direct role in the...

[CAD Note] BIM issues. Inherent to BIM is parametric design software tied to data contained in spreadsheets. Changes made to either the di...