Since the establishment of the CAAD futures Foundation in 1985 CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and at the same time document the state of the art research in Computer Aided Architectural Design. The history of CAAD futures started in the Netherlands at the Technical Universities of Eindhoven and Delft, where the CAAD futures Foundation came into being. Then CAAD futures crossed the oceans for the first time, the third CAAD futures was held in '89 at Harvard University. The next stations in the evolution were in '91 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, in '93 the conference was organized by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and in '95 by National University Singapore. CAAD futures '95 marked the world-wide nature by organizing it for the first time in Asia.
Documents the latest of biennial gatherings to report the state of research in the field. The 69 papers cover shapes, grammars, and types; design support; exploration and evaluation; environment and simulation; collaboration in design; product models and virtual enterprise; virtual reality; learning and reasoning; design media; and generative systems and emergence. The keynote papers are Design Medium Design Object, CAD So What , The Integration of Design Applications with Building Models, and What Are We Learning from Designers and its Role in Future CAAD Tools? Modestly illustrated in black and white. Reproduced from typescript. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
