Formalizing Urban Methodologies

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focus is the use of formal methods in architecture and urbanism, promoting the creation of new explicit languages for problem solving involving theoretically-driven techniques expressed in languages stemming from mathematics. Assembling a set of twenty papers presented at the 4^th International Symposium Formal Methods in Architecture (April 2018, Oporto, Portugal), this Special Issue brings together content related to the following scientific fields: Ontology in architecture; BIM/VDC; CAD | CAM; cellular automata; GIS; parametric processes; processing; shape grammars; space syntaxes; and tracking/mapping. The aim is to look to the potential of these formal methods and their applications in daily problems. These problems range from representation, to theory, critique, production, communication, etc., never ceasing to see architecture and urbanism as technological activities, as well as artistic ones. The Special Issue, more than an attempt to deepen each specific field, seeks—above all—to correlate them, making a contribution to the advancement of multiple crossings between several formal methods, in which fertility has already been proven. A dialogue with data from semi-formal and even informal methods in current use is to be stimulated as well, as a way to deepen the discussion on aesthetic and ideology controversies associated to formalization within architecture and urbanism.

Dr. David Leite Viana
Prof. Franklim Morais
Dr. Jorge Vieira Vaz
Guest Editors

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