Patterns and Spatial Organisation: Culture, History and Future Perspectives

Nexus Network Journal guest editors Yannis Zavoleas and Mark Taylor introduce the papers in vol 23 no. 1, a special issue dedicated to patterns and spatial organisation. In this introduction they discuss the role of patterns in architecture, from the early uses through to recent applications and future possibilities. Especially since the integration of computers and computing into design practice, a comparative discourse on the eras before-and-after their arrival seems imperative, so that the qualities of the past are selectively tailored to support those of the future. To that aim, the theme of this issue provides a vehicle to address many of architecture’s key challenges from both a humanistic perspective and a technical/technological one.