The GSM4Q conference addresses new Philosophies, new Strategy and New Directions towards 3D Creative Thinking Skills for the Digital Construction Industry, for the public framed as “Connecting People Spaces and Machines”. GSM4Q offered an important vehicle to disseminate the current most innovative developments in the field of architectural engineering. The participants of the conference, both practitioners and students. GSM4Q aimed to inform and stimulate the Qatar based construction industries and their experts to adopt the new robotic methods of design, manufacturing and building. For the Qatar industries, it meant a further shift of focus towards the digital and towards 3D and 4D thinking, designing and manufacturing, as to promote new industries and encourage further economic diversification. The theme of the Game Set and Match IV Qatar [GSM4Q] conference is “Connecting People, Spaces and Machines”, with as the subtheme ‘The Informed Nomadic Monad’. GSM4Q topics were structured along the lines of the scalability of the connections between constituting monadic components. Leading themes for the conference sessions are 1] Informed Nomadic Swarms, 2] Nomadic Cities and Buildings, 3] Monads and Nomads, and 4] Scalable Interaction with Inclusive approach with respect to tradition and modernity, but representing the natural form of the next generation building. Day One | The Nomad session labelled “Universe / Planet” and Day Two | The Monad focused more on the realized state of the art buildings in Doha and elsewhere.
Enduring Features of the North American Suburb: Built Form, Automobile Orientation, Suburban Culture and Political Mobilization