The design of low-cost system-built housing has been one of the central preoccupations of modern architecture. The Usonian house was Frank Lloyd Wright's answer to the problem. It was conceived within a planning grid which also determined the constructional system, and refined and developed the...

The paper follows the preparation of a brief for the design of a school in an English county. Mathematical techniques were made available to help in determining an appropriate schedule of room sizes and to carry out appraisals of alternative proposed outline designs. For various reasons the...

Current models of the environmental performance of buildings embody physical variables and are either deterministic or probabilistic or a combination of the two. It is argued that this is an inappropriate basis for any submodel of occupant action to control the environment. Fuzzy variables and...

Two- and three-dimensional rectangular dissections are considered as sets of intersecting line and plane segments. The different types of intersections, or joints, are enumerated and various properties considered.

This article introduces, and presents in a slightly edited translation, a paper written in 1928 by the Moscow architectural student Nikolai Krasil'nikov. Moisei Ginsburg, intellectual leader of the Constructivist group OSA (of which Krasil'nikov was a member), had built the course in...

This note comments on the dimensioning aspect of small rectangular floor plans that is described by Mitchell et al (1976). It outlines the requirements for an optimization algorithm to be used for dimensioning architectural plans and shows that dynamic programming satisfies the requirements. It...

In recent work (Tabor, 1970; 1975; March and Steadman, 1971), spectra of building forms have been studied in terms of their circulation characteristics with respect to occupancy by single homogeneous organizations. In this paper the more realistic assumption is made that a building may well accommodate...

A brief note on Combes's (1976) diagram of rectangular dissections and its use in examining the typology of historical and contemporary house plans.

Tessellation designs composed from tiles in periodic space fillings are considered. An efficient algorithmic theory for the generation and enumeration of nonequivalent designs is developed. It is shown that each design has a graphical representation as a labelled subgraph of some graph whose...