This strand of my research looks at how computation is changing architecture and the digitalisation of the profession.
This was the topic of my PhD, and where my interest in research originated.
I've been building a corpus of words that make up the discourse around computational architecture. It consists of titles of articles from the journal Architectural Design and titles and abstracts describing the winning projects and honorable mentions of the eVolo skyscraper competition. This could be interesting for those playing around with text-prompts for generating images for architecture. Part of the corpus can be found here:
| ComPara: A Corpus Linguistics Dataset of Computation in Architecture. 2020 [AS. Horvath] , Mendeley Data, doi: 10.17632/7ktscvmxvg.5
I analyzed the entire corpus trying to see how the discourse around the field has been changing between 2005 and 2020 in this paper :
| How we talk(ed) about it: Ways of speaking about computational architecture. 2022. [Horvath, A-S]. in International Journal of Architectural Computing. https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771211070006
Publications:
| AI for Conceptual Architecture: reflections on designing with text-to-text, text-to-image, and image-to-image generators. 2024. [AS. Horvath, P. Pouliou]. Frontiers of Architectural Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2024.02.006
| Speculative Hybrids: Investigating the generation of conceptual architectural forms through the use of 3D generative adversarial networks. 2023. [Pouliou, P., Horvath, A-S., & Palamas, G.]. in International Journal of Architectural Computing. https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771231168229
| How we talk(ed) about it: Ways of speaking about computational architecture. 2022. [Horvath, A-S]. in International Journal of Architectural Computing. https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771211070006
| Bringing Human Centeredness to Technologies for Buildings - An Agenda for Linking New Types of Data to the Challenge of Sustainability. 2021 [C. Vite, AS. Horvath, G. Neff, NLH. Møller] in CHItaly ‘21: Proceedings of the 14th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter. pp. 1-8. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3464385.3464711
| messyBIM: Augmenting a Building Information Model with Messy Talk to Improve a Buildings’ Design process. 2021 [AS. Horvath, C. Vite, NLH. Møller, G. Neff] in M. Menéndez-Blanco, S. Uğur Yavuz, J. Schubert, D. Fogli, & F. Paternò (Eds.) CHItaly 2021 Joint Proceedings of Interactive Experiences and Doctoral Consortium, (Vol. 2892). pp. 7-14. CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2892/paper-2.pdf
here is a link to my PhD, which unfortunately is in Romanian. I'm working on publishing it in part or full in English:
| Architecture, Computation and Nature: Living and Non-living Natural Models in Computational Architecture. 2015 [AS. Horvath]. figshare. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16571259.v1
