Computers in Building, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999 Proceedings of the CAADfutures’99 Conference. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures held at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA on June 7–8, 1999

Since the establishment of the CAAD Futures Foundation in 1985, CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and document the state of the art of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design. Together, the series provides a good record of the evolving state of research in this area over the last fourteen years. The Proceedings this year is the eighth in the series. The conference held at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, includes twenty-five papers presenting new and exciting results and capabilities in areas such as computer graphics, building modeling, digital sketching and drawing systems, Web-based collaboration and information exchange. An overall reading shows that computers in architecture is still a young field, with many exciting results emerging out of both greater understanding of the human processes and information processing needed to support design and also the continuously expanding capabilities of digital technology.

CAD interfaces to the ARROW manufactured product serve.- The future of CAAD: from computer-aided design to computer-aided collaboration.- Exploiting the Internet to improve collaboration between users and design team: The case of the new computer laboratory building at Cambridge University.- Urban texture analysis with image processing technique.- A Web-centric CAD system for collaborative design.- Immersive redlining and annotation of 3-D design models on the Web.- How do distributed design organizations act together to create a meaningful design? Towards a process model for design coordination.- A performance-inspired building representation for computational design.- About objects and approaches: a conceptual view on building model.- The BAS-CAAD information system for design — principles, implementation, and a design scenario.- Information sharing in building design.- Aspects of S2.- Interactive 2D constraint-based geometric construction system.- Collaborative design with NetDraw.- The computer’s role in sketch design: A transparent sketching medium.- Making designs come alive: Using physically based modeling techniques in space layout planning.- An interpolation/extrapolation process for creative designing.- Feature-based high level design tools: A classification.- ?-Resolution in design space exploration.- Feature-based qualitative modeling of object.- The front of the stage of Vitruvius’ Roman theatre: A new approach of computer aided design that transforms geometric operators to semantic operator.- Experiments on animated visual form.- Environmental life cycle assessment in an integrated CAD environment: The epilogue approach.- Downstream of design: Web-based facility operations document.- The Piranesi system for interactive rendering.