Architecture, City, People, and Structure

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Buildings on “Architecture, City, People, and Structure” is based on the four domains mentioned in the title, whose interactions and mutual influence affect human life and living and make their intersection a crucial research theme. Hence, the Special Issue consists of four main subjects:

Architecture:

• The architecture of tomorrow—21st-century solutions in terms of pro-ecological and sustainable development;
• Universal Design as an integral direction of contemporary architecture;
• Innovation in architecture—temporary architecture (disasters), mobile structures in the city of the future, pop-up architecture, parametric design;
• Living city skin—responsive architecture, kinetic architecture, interactive facades;

City:

• Energy-efficient and autonomous cities;
• Virtual reality—digital cities;
• Living cities—the use of biomimetic and bionic solutions in shaping cities;
• Application of Universal Design as an attempt to eliminate barriers in the 21st-century city;
• Urban adaptation to the requirements during an epidemic threat;

People:

• Contemporary problems of single-family and multifamily housing based on pro-ecological and sustainable development assumptions;
• The housing architecture of tomorrow;
• Cohousing as a response to nowadays needs of multifamily architecture;

Structure:

• Modern materials in architecture;
• Reusing and recycling in shaping 21st-century architecture;
• Low-tech and high-tech in 21st-century architecture;
• Wooden structures in contemporary architecture;
• Modern constructions systems in shaping architectural objects.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Gronostajska
Prof. Dr. Romuald Tarczewski
Prof. Dr. Joanna Jablonska
Guest Editors

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