ACADIA '97 is the 16th annual conference held by ACADIA, the Association for Computer-Aided Design In Architecture. This organization was formed in 1982 for the purpose of facilitating communication and information exchange regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. A particular focus is education and the software, hardware and pedagogy involved in education.

Figure by Thomas Seebohm

The organization is also committed to the research and development of computer aides that enhance design creativity, rather than simply production, and that aim at contributing to the construction of humane physical environments.

The organizers for ACADIA '97 called for papers that would address the nature of representation and its relationship to a design and the resulting architectural artifact and the role of representation in design process. The papers selected for presentation and publication are indexed on this page.

Index of Abstracts

• What's In a Representation; Why Do We Care, and What Does It Mean? Examining Evidence from Psychology
  Scott Johnson, University of Michigan
  
  
• Cybrids: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Space In Architecture
  Peter Anders, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  
  
• Representing Design Decisions: An Object Oriented Approach
  Filiz Ozel, Arizona State University
  
  
• Representing Architectural Design Using Virtual Computers
  Ganapathy Mahalingam, North Dakota State University
  
  
• Agent Generated Architecture
  Jeffrey C. Krause, Blacksquare

• Old Wine in New Wine Skins: Architecture, Representation and Electronic Media
  Louis P. DeLaura, Rice University
  
  
• The Mind's Eye: Movement and Time in Architecture
  Darlene A. Brady, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
  
  
• Programs As Pencils: Investigating Form Generation
  Robert J. Krawczyk, Illinois Institute of Technology
  
  
• Design Evaluation Based on Virtual Representation of Spaces
  Celine Pinet, Ohio University
  
  
• Representation of Architectural Concepts in the Study of Precedents: A Concept-Learning System
  Taeyeol Park and Valerian Miranda, Texas A&M University
  
  
• Between Digital and Analog Civilizations: The Spatial Manipulation Media Workshop
  Bennett Neiman, University of Colorado at Denver, and Julio Bermudez, University of Utah
  
  
• Berlin Crane City: The Urban Space of New World Order
  Gerard Smulevich, Woodbury University
  
  
• Architectural Acoustic Teaching Software
  James A. Turner and Norman E. Barnett; University of Michigan
  
  
• Teaching CAD with Language Learning Methods
  Nancy Yen-wen Cheng, University of Oregon
  

• P3: An Integrated Environment to Support Design Collaboration
  Yehuda E. Kalay, University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• Semantically Rich Building Representation
  Lachmi Khemlani, Anne Timerman, Beatrice Benne, and Yehuda Kalay; University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• The Impact of Information Technology in Design and Construction: The Owner's Perspective
  Robert E. Johnson and Mark J. Clayton; Texas A&M University
  
  
• Computer Visualization as a Tool for Conceptual Understanding of a Building
  Paul Groh, Eric Owen Moss Architects and Woodbury University
  
  
• Rule-Based Representation of Design in Architectural Practice
  Thomas Seebohm, University of Waterloo
  
  
• Taking Turns: Strained Metaphors As Generators of Form in Computer Aided Design
  Daniel M. Herbert, University of Oregon
  
  
• Ancient Structures and Modern Analysis: Investigating Damage and Reconstruction at Pompeii
  Kirk Martini, University of Virginia
  
  
• The Elements of Neighborhood: Design Information for Participation in Neighborhood-Scale Planning
  Ronald Kellett, G. Z. Brown, Cynthia Girling, Kit Larsen, Karen Dietrich, John Duncan, and Elise Hendrickson; University of Oregon
  
  
• Making of Obelisk: Multimedia Archiving System
  Jerzy Wojtowicz, Joost Houwen, Ali Shakarchi, University of British Columbia
  
  
• Aspects of Tenochtitlan: Nature of CD ROM Production in the Construction of Content
  Antonieta Rivera and Jerzy Wojtowicz, University of British Columbia