Multimodality in Architecture (eBook)

This book examines multimodality in architecture and its impacts on collaborative, technical and educational processes or systems.

Multimodality is becoming increasingly critical in contemporary architectural practice and education. Creative design teams face new challenges when they embrace new modes of communication, technology, and knowledge development processes. From diverse online modes of communication to shared digital environments, generative AI and advanced hardware solutions, new modes of information creation, sharing, and application are changing the ways architects and designers work.

The book presents new research which empowers international researchers and designers to work more effectively in a diverse range of digital environments.

Whether the readers are architects, teachers, students, or scholars, this book provides critical insights and practical tools for understanding and optimising processes in architecture and design.

 

Dr Ju Hyun Lee is Associate Professor of Architecture and Computational Design at UNSW, Sydney. He has made significant research contributions in the fields of architectural computing and design cognition and has held multiple academic roles in Australia and South Korea. He completed postdoctoral research at UoN. He is Chair of AKA.N and Co-Director of Advanced Architectural Analytics lab. He is co-author with Michael J. Ostwald of Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches in Architecture (IGI Global 2020) and co-author with Michael J. Ostwald and Ning Gu of Design Thinking: Creativity, Collaboration and Culture (Springer 2020).

 

Professor Michael J. Ostwald is Professor of Architectural Analytics at UNSW, Sydney. He has a PhD in architectural history and theory and a DSc in design mathematics and computing. Michael completed postdoctoral research on geometry at UCLA, CCA and Harvard, and he has held academic positions in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Italy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Nexus Network Journal (Springer) and on the editorial boards of ARQ (Cambridge) and Architectural Theory Review (Taylor and Francis). He has authored seventeen books about architecture, design and mathematics.

Professor Mi Jeong Kim is a Professor of the School of Architecture at Hanyang University in Korea. She received her PhD from the KCDCC at the University of Sydney and worked as a postdoc fellow at UC Berkeley before joining Kyung Hee University. She was previously a visiting fellow at NYU, MIT, and Curtin University. She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Korean Institute of Interior Design and on the editorial boards of International Journal of Architectural Research. Her research interests include sensing architecture, human-building interaction, design education and strategies for creativity, smart homes, and communities.