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Beautimeter: Harnessing GPT for Assessing Architectural and Urban Beauty based on the 15 Properties of Living Structure
Bin Jiang
Beautimeter is a new tool powered by generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) technology, designed to evaluate architectural and urban beauty. Rooted in Christopher Alexander's the…
The Status Quo of Architecture and Its Impact on Urban Management: Christopher Alexander's Insights
Bin Jiang
Christopher Alexander offers a critical perspective on the modernist approach to architecture, which he argues has prioritized innovation, abstraction, and mechanistic efficiency a…
Representing Geographic Space as a Hierarchy of Recursively Defined Subspaces for Computing the Degree of Order
Bin Jiang, Chris de Rijke
As Christopher Alexander discovered, all space or matter - either organic or inorganic - has some degree of order in it according to its structure and arrangement. The order refers…
Structural Beauty: A Structure-based Approach to Quantifying the Beauty of an Image
Bin Jiang, Chris de Rijke
To say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder means that beauty is largely subjective so varies from person to person. While the subjectivity view is commonly held, there is als…
A New Approach to Detecting and Designing Living Structure of Urban Environments
Bin Jiang, Ju-Tzu Huang
Sustainable urban design or planning is not a LEGO-like assembly of prefabricated elements, but an embryo-like growth with persistent differentiation and adaptation towards a coher…
Alexander's Wholeness as the Scientific Foundation of Sustainable Urban Design and Planning
Bin Jiang
As Christopher Alexander conceived and defined through his life's work - The Nature of Order - wholeness is a recursive structure that recurs in space and matter and is reflected i…