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Data‐Informed Design: A Call for Theory
Author(s) -
Kvan Thomas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2564
Subject(s) - architecture , urban design , sociology , architectural engineering , engineering ethics , computer science , engineering , history , archaeology
Abstract The future of urban design is implicitly connected with datasets. Thomas Kvan , founding director of AURIN, a national digital infrastructure to support urban research, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, argues that architects have already lost ground to data scientists in this respect. The architectural profession and its education system must embrace urban data analysis as input for urban and building design of the future.