YBL Journal of Built Environment: Recent submissions
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Artificial Intelligence and Architecture Towards a New Paradigm
(2023)The widespread application of artificial intelligence is not the realm of utopias or science fiction any more. It is gradually entering practically all walks of life from science and technology to fine arts. It is most ... -
Rethinking of the Vernacular Adobe Architecture Rehabilitation
(2023)In recent work, heat-technical modeling, life cycle assessment, and rehabilitation of the vernacular adobe wall house is discussed. Our topic choice is based on the fact that a significant part of the Hungarian rural housing ... -
Skyscrapers II: The Hungarian Connection(s)
(2023)In a previous paper (Justification for ’Scrapping the Sky’, Ybl Journal of Built Environment, Vol. 7/1,) I set an overall framework for reviewing the elusive topic from its history to the state-of-theart, with a particular ... -
A Proposal for Utilization of Vaults as Floor-slab Structures in Contemporary Architecture
(2024-12-30)Vaults are among the oldest known engineering structures, and have escorted the history of architecture through thousands of years. Nowadays, construction industry rarely uses them, and doesn’t consider them as a general ... -
Urban Housing Typologies Through Modern History
(2024-12-30)Urban housing typologies refer to different ways of designing and constructing various types of housing that exist in urban areas. They can be classified by function, form, shape, construction type, and materials. Several ... -
The Significance of Human Individual and Crowd Movement Research in Built Environment, with Emphasis on its Function in Retail Spaces
(2024-12-30)Understanding the movements of crowds offers more and more opportunities in the field of architecture, in both active and passive methods of implementation. The study briefly describes crowd dynamics, the new field of ... -
The Architectural Aesthetic Order of Fire Protection
(2024-12-30)Nowadays, the damaging effects on humanity, such as extreme weather caused by climate change, the pandemic-induced isolation, or the drastic increase in the cost of energy carriers, etc., have led to the need to change the ... -
Small Scale Interventions in Debrecen as a Method of Sustainability
(2024-12-30)Architecture - both urban and building scale - always strongly reflects the current social and cultural context. This is of course no different today: the topics that currently define our world - climate change, sustainability, ... -
The Turn-of-the-Century Monument Protection Practice in Light of Ernő Foerks’s Work
(2019)Present paper is about Ernő Foerk’s several architectural works which involved monument preservation. Questions about the theory and practice of monument preservation are surveyed, focusing on restoration and reconstruction ... -
From the Foundation Stone to the Cathedral: Architecture of the Votive Church of Szeged
(2019)After the flood has demolished the largest part of Szeged the citizens decided to build a Votive church dedicated to Virgin Mary as a symbol of Hungarian national identit. After the opening design tender finally Ernő Foerk ... -
Two parallel life paths: Aladár Árkay and Ernő Foerk
(2019)Architects Aladár Árkay and Ernő Foerk crossed the path reasonable few times, even though their course of life were parallel. Not only the place, but also the date of their birth were quite close. This fact will be the ... -
Ernő Foerk and Gyula Sándy’s Tüköry Mansion in Dioš, Croatia: Genealogy of Architectural and Stylistic Features
(2019)Tüköry Mansion in Dioš (Diósszentpál), Croatia, was designed by architects Ernő Foerk and Gyula Sándy in 1904. It is situated near the Central Slavonian town of Končanica and in close proximity of Daruvar, on an estate ... -
Researching By Design: Methodologies to Explore Design-Based Instruction for Youth Resilience to Environmental Challenges
(2024-12-30)Environmental education is not aligning with the sustainability and educational needs of the 21st century. Design-based learning emerges as a viable solution, fostering problem-solving and experiential learning in the ... -
Multidisciplinary Nature of the AEC Industry, and the Potential Distribution of AEC Firms
(2024-12-30)The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector is diverse. The industry’s market is run by businesses of different sizes, specialties, and subordinations, and each active company indirectly participates in ... -
Evaluating the Viability of the Erbil Citadel Houses for Adaptive Reuse Process
(2024-12-30)Notwithstanding its potential advantages, adaptive reuse has grown in popularity as a sustainable development strategy across the globe. There is a shortage of studies on the methodology and results of adaptive reuse ... -
Energy and Environmental Load Reduction, Optimization on Pile Foundation Design
(2024-12-30)Design methods must also be improved in order to reduce energy costs and environmental impact. When designing pile foundations, the costs and environmental impact of construction are far from being irrelevant. At present, ... -
Review of Construction Risks in a Nuclear Power Plant Environment
(2024-12-30)Everything in the world is about risk, from individual decisions to global manipulations, which is of fundamental importance in a nuclear power plant environment. The question is whether, in a given situation, ... -
Relationships between the Built Environment and Environmental Pollution, Issues of Megacities
(2024-12-30)The first part of the article discusses the natural environment of humans and its evolution over the past centuries. It examines the changes that have occurred in just the last 100 years and how they have impacted human ... -
Biomimicry Architecture Between Fame and Reality
(2024-12-30)As a highly interdisciplinary subject, architecture is influenced by many natural and social science subjects. Although seemingly distant from architecture, biology is currently a scientific field that fits into design ...