Digital Imaging and the Web in Teaching Structures

Digital Imaging and the Web in Teaching Structures
A rigorous visual approach

Abstract

Computer-based structural analysis has radically changed the mode and focus of structures teaching in many forward-looking architecture programs; it's impact cannot be underestimated. There is, however, potentially a still larger role for computers in teaching structures, offered by two of the most important information technologies of the 1990s: digital imaging, and the world wide web. These technologies offer unprecedented teaching opportunities in many fields, including architectural structures. The paper describes a project to create an introductory structures course that integrates these technologies into a larger pedagogic framework, taking advantage of a variety of digital imaging techniques to illustrate structural concepts and using the web as an image resource and communication medium in teaching.

PART 1

Introduction
Pedagogic Objectives

PART 2

Digital Images

PART 3

Abstract

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