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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a method to support business process architecture and business process design, and present an application to the domain of public hospitals in Chile.Design/methodology/approachThis method is based on the formalization of generic architectures and their internal process structure, proposed in this work as architecture and process patterns, which have been developed at the Master in Business Engineering of the University of Chile and validated empirically in hundreds of Chilean firms from different industries.FindingsThe authors have found that the use of architecture and process patterns accelerates the design of such structures until the last level of detail, providing a good and timely basis for information system design and, in particular, were able to develop comprehensive generic process architecture for public hospitals in two months.Originality/valueThe authors' approach considers explicitly the relationships among the architecture elements and process components, providing a systemic view of the business structure and ensuring the alignment between its elements.

Da Nang's urban landscape reveals more than a half century of colonization and French presence on its territory. The buildings carry the imprint of the colonial experience, as they were once considered a symbol of domination, linking Da Nang to the global history of colonization. After years of independence and reconstruction, the public attitude towards French colonial heritage has changed. Despite its roots and historical origins, today, French colonial architecture is engrained into the collective understanding of Da Nang's urban landscape and has shaped the local visual identity of the urban space. More importantly perhaps, this architectural style contributes to the city's connection with cultural tourism, an important tool for economic development. As Da Nang is on a path of constant growth, this paper engages with issues around architectural preservation of built colonial heritage, in terms of both the values of preservation, and the challenges it presents for contemporary urban planning.

Architecture is inextricably entangled with time. Illustrating this point, the article explores two moments of architectural production centred on London in the mid-19th century: the 'Battle of the Styles', a struggle over the social meaning of historicist architectural design and its suitability for state-funded public buildings; and the proto-modernist Crystal Palace, which housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. While ostensibly involving different cultural orientations to pasts-presents-futures, both cases reflect how political claims can involve the mobilisation of temporalised architectural forms. The general contention is that architecture is a culturally experimental space through which nation-states and architects seek to orientate otherwise abstracted notions of temporality. While there is no straightforward or singular correspondence between temporality and architectural sites, the built environment is pushed and pulled by states' politicised claims regarding time and temporality. Architecture always involves the materialisation of particular and partial visions of the world as is, as was, and as could be; temporal registers in the built environment involve the stabilisation of some ways of being and the displacement of others. The political basis of these processes can be illuminated sociologically.

Sedan Kina 2005 bestämde sig för att satsa på en uthålligsamhällsutveckling baserad på ekosystemtänkande har intresset för samarbete med Sverige utvecklats mycket snabbt. Inte minst tack vare det systemkunnande och den forskningsbaserade kunskap som finns i Sverige, men även tack vare ett antal talande exempel som Hammarbysjöstad och Bo01. Sedan avtal slöts om samarbete inom utbildningoch forskning mellan Sverige och Kina 2004 har det etablerats 160 olika samarbetenmed svenska universitet, inte minst om arkitektur och planering. Det finns en rad forskningsfrågor som behöver belysas för att stärka de svenska arkitektföretagens marknad i Kina: systemutveckling, lagaroch regelverk, integrerade planeringsmetoder liksom utvärderingsmetoderav delaspekter likaväl som hela integrerade stadsdelar. ; China today is a laboratory for innovation in sustainable architectural designand urban development on a scale never seen before in the world. This means that China set the standard for sustainable urbanization on the globallevel. China uses Sweden as a strategic partner in this development andSwedish researchers are a part of this development. 160 exchange projectshave by now been established between Swedish and Chinese universities. Not all, but many of these are devoted to architecture and planning. The conference aimed at discussing how research collaboration betweenSweden and China can be strengthened and developed within sustainablearchitecture and urban development. This included issues within legislation,standards, institutional frameworks, systems approaches, design andtechnical solutions as well as working methodologies within planning and design. ; QC 20191111

Sedan Kina 2005 bestämde sig för att satsa på en uthålligsamhällsutveckling baserad på ekosystemtänkande har intresset för samarbete med Sverige utvecklats mycket snabbt. Inte minst tack vare det systemkunnande och den forskningsbaserade kunskap som finns i Sverige, men även tack vare ett antal talande exempel som Hammarbysjöstad och Bo01. Sedan avtal slöts om samarbete inom utbildningoch forskning mellan Sverige och Kina 2004 har det etablerats 160 olika samarbetenmed svenska universitet, inte minst om arkitektur och planering. Det finns en rad forskningsfrågor som behöver belysas för att stärka de svenska arkitektföretagens marknad i Kina: systemutveckling, lagaroch regelverk, integrerade planeringsmetoder liksom utvärderingsmetoderav delaspekter likaväl som hela integrerade stadsdelar. ; China today is a laboratory for innovation in sustainable architectural designand urban development on a scale never seen before in the world. This means that China set the standard for sustainable urbanization on the globallevel. China uses Sweden as a strategic partner in this development andSwedish researchers are a part of this development. 160 exchange projectshave by now been established between Swedish and Chinese universities. Not all, but many of these are devoted to architecture and planning. The conference aimed at discussing how research collaboration betweenSweden and China can be strengthened and developed within sustainablearchitecture and urban development. This included issues within legislation,standards, institutional frameworks, systems approaches, design andtechnical solutions as well as working methodologies within planning and design. ; QC 20191111

'Women in Architecture' sheds light on how women in all their different roles contribute to architecture, from the past to the present. Despite the essential and varied contributions of women, the narrative surrounding architecture remains deeply rooted in masculinity. Nonetheless, women have played crucial roles throughout architectural history. This publication sheds light on the reasons behind the absence of women in archives and publications, and how that exclusion continues to perpetuate the invisibility of women in architecture today. By bringing together these stories, the publication adds a crucial chapter to the history of architecture in the Netherlands and advocates for greater diversity in the current architectural discourse

Acknowledging that the Danish Buildings Regulations is having an impact on the design of inclusive architecture, a Danish government agency focuses on new models for the accessibility requirements in the future Building Regulations supporting an innovative and inclusive architecture. In order to establish empirical material for the analysis and development of new models, architectural firms have been invited to workshops and group interviews to present their own experience of the challenges and the opportunities that they meet in their everyday practice as users of the Buildings Regulations. The prescriptive accessibility requirements were criticised for being too homogenous. A majority of the firms suggest a performance- based model in order to work with 'accessibility zoning' achieving flexibility because of different levels of accessibility in a building due to its performance. Paradoxically a minimum level is required in order not to lose accessibility.

The intersections between traditional and modern culture and the current the ""network society"" produce hybrids and heterogeneity. What will eventually survive defines the prospect of architectural evolution and architectural heritage to ensuing generations. Greek rural architecture presents architectural elements distinct even between neighboring settlements documenting the evolution of the phenomenon. Heterogeneity reflects diversity that exists in time and space and demands respect from current culture and values. Contemporary Greek culture is rooted and continues to elaborate the cultural intersection between East and West. The diversity of architectural heritage in settlements created before 1923 (chronology of the constitution of the contemporary Greek territory) is an irreplaceable source of spiritual and intellectual richness for study. In every micro-region is recorded a spectacular variety of rural architectural elements originated from a specific historical period and culture. Indeed in most cases, where due to a crisis (earthquake or other) the interval of history is clearly perceived, there is visible appearance of the diverse phases of heterogeneity and hybrids survival. Architectural heritage is constructed in historical periods of the past and as it was decided, it should be conserved by virtue of a particular legislative framework implemented in Europe since 1985 and applied by Public authorities. Some architectural representations with a particular beginning, duration and end (such as neo-classicism) constitute architectural heritage and are consequently governed by the legislation of architectural heritage conservation. Nonetheless, (re)constructions and neo-traditional representations - just for tourism consumption - do not constitute architectural heritage but an image making, a new simulacrum. For now simulacra deconstructs the intentions of the in-set culture (tourism) in rural areas and in this sense reflects the defense of a society to an invasion. The hybrids and what will evolve in future time perhaps will constitute architectural heritage. In the etymological sense of architectural heritage, however, the representations and (re)constructions - with all the deconstructing hybridity - are an architectural product that will be transferred to the coming generations and their duration and end are to determine whether they will be fertile or sterile chapters of the history of architecture.

In a recently discovered photograph of German architect Bruno Taut's retrospective exhibition at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, which opened on 4 June 1938, Taut in-exile stands with Erica Taut and his assistant Şinasi Lugal in front of a display (see Figure 1). What interests me in this image is not so much the frontal figures who posed for it as the documentary value of the exhibit in the background, the photographs inside the photograph. These images display Taut's Siedlungen (residential settlements/collective housing projects), designed and constructed as part of the Berlin Housing Program (1924–33) just before Taut was exiled from Germany due to the rise of National Socialism. After stays in Russia and Japan, Taut moved to Turkey, where he became head of the Architecture Department at the Istanbul Academy. Through a seminar and a studio he taught on Siedlung, he participated in a translation of the idea of collective housing that would shape the discursive space and practice of architecture in Turkey for decades to come. Most of the images in the exhibition were taken by the now-famous photographer Arthur Köster. The exhibit bears witness to the fact that Turkish architects were exposed not only to the influential Siedlungen of the Weimar period in Germany but also to their soon-to-be canonical photographs earlier than most of their colleagues around the world.

This article substantiates the possibility of using the material of temple architecture in studies of religious perceptions of man. In studying the religious teachings of man, we rely on the religious anthropology of K. I. Nikonov. We also used the methodology of L. Jones's "hermeneutics of sacred architecture" and A. Corben's temenology to study temple structures and sacred spaces. Our approach allowed us to explore believers' understanding of temple architecture as a self-understanding. It has been shown that temple architecture can be used to reconstruct the history of religious teachings on man, as well as to deepen philosophical knowledge of the essence, structure, and basic aspects of believers' understanding of themselves.