Nexus Network Journal 14,3

1. Front Matter

   Pages ii-v

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2. Letter from the Editor

   1. Digital Fabrication

      • Kim Williams

      Pages 407-408

3. Design Analysis: Methods and Results

   1. Prototyping Vitruvius, New Challenges: Digital Education, Research and Practice

      • Alexandra Paio, Sara Eloy, Vasco Moreira Rato, Ricardo Resende, Maria João de Oliveira

      Pages 409-429

   2. Design-Through-Production Formulations

      • Kevin R. Klinger

      Pages 431-440

   3. Manufacturing Bespoke Architecture

      • Bob Sheil

      Pages 441-456

   4. Personal Fabrication: Fab Labs as Platforms for Citizen-Based Innovation, from Microcontrollers to Cities

      • Tomas Diez

      Pages 457-468

   5. Digital Fabrication Laboratories: Pedagogy and Impacts on Architectural Education

      • Gabriela Celani

      Pages 469-482

   6. Robotic Assembly Processes as a Driver in Architectural Design

      • Tobias Bonwetsch

      Pages 483-494

4. Other Research

   1. Design and Tracing of Post-Byzantine Churches in the Florina Area, Northwestern Greece

      • Aineias Oikonomou

      Pages 495-515

   2. Correspondence Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Qualitative Data in Architecture

      • Farah Habib, Iraj Etesam, S. Hadi Ghoddusifar, Nahid Mohajeri

      Pages 517-538

   3. Method of Modulation and Sizing of Historic Architecture

      • Francisco Roldán

      Pages 539-553

   4. Descriptive Geometry: From its Past to its Future

      • Riccardo Migliari

      Pages 555-571

5. Didactics

   1. Material Customization: Digital Fabrication Workshop at ISCTE/IUL

      • José Pedro Sousa

      Pages 573-578

6. Book Review

   1. Book Review

      • Kim Williams

      Pages 579-582

7. Back Matter

   Pages 583-583

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The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 3) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features seven original papers dedicated to the theme “Digital Fabrication”. Digital fabrication is changing architecture in fundamental ways in every phase, from concept to artifact. Projects growing out of research in digital fabrication are dependent on software that is entirely surface-oriented in its underlying mathematics. Decisions made during design, prototyping, fabrication and assembly rely on codes, scripts, parameters, operating systems and software, creating the need for teams with multidisciplinary expertise and different skills, from IT to architecture, design, material engineering, and mathematics, among others The papers grew out of a Lisbon symposium hosted by the ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa entitled “Digital Fabrication – A State of the Art”. The issue is completed with four other research papers which address different mathematical instruments applied to architecture, including geometric tracing systems, proportional systems, descriptive geometry and correspondence analysis. The issue concludes with a book review.

• digital fabrication
• mathematics and architecture

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