Measured drawings of seven bungalows that were built between 1914 and 1926 in Buffalo, New York, are presented. The paper concentrates on the conventions which govern the organization of spaces in these bungalows and establish linkages with other house types in the popular tradition. The...

Atkin's conjecture that a simplicial complex might be uniquely determined by its structured vectors is disproved by counterexample.

A class of grids is defined and catalogued for a restricted set of dimensional values.

Shape grammars elucidate the composition of designs and at the same time provide the basis for the description of these designs in other terms.

An attempt is made to model the distribution of partitions (party walls) and built-form arrays within the entropy maximization and information minimizing formalism for the ninety-five kilometre-square cells used to record the town of Reading, England. In both cases the relationship has the form...

This paper develops a framework for architectural research of an applied nature, that is, research that will generate 'operational knowledge' in relation to architecture's principal identifying characteristic, and that element which rests in the hands of the designer, namely the organisation of...

The objective of this paper is to study the relations between connectivity and adjacency measures, developed in previous papers, as functions of the urban spatial structure, by means of multivariate statistical techniques at two levels of resolution and spatial aggregation for the kilometre...

Abstract. The effect of recent planning rules on the scale and character of new building developments in the central business district of a city has been investigated. Relationships between characteristics such as gross floor area, rentable floor area, number of levels, rentals, site value, and...