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Multithreaded architectures now appear across the entire range of computing devices, from the highest-performing general purpose devices to low-end embedded processors. Multithreading enables a processor core to more effectively utilize its computational resources, as a stall in one thread need not cause execution resources to be idle. This enables the computer architect to maximize performance within area constraints, power constraints, or energy constraints. However, the architectural options for the processor designer or architect looking to implement multithreading are quite extensive and varied, as evidenced not only by the research literature but also by the variety of commercial implementations. This book introduces the basic concepts of multithreading, describes the a number of models of multithreading, and then develops the three classic models (coarse-grain, fine-grain, and simultaneous multithreading) in greater detail. It describes a wide variety of architectural and software design tradeoffs, as well as opportunities specific to multithreading architectures. Finally, it details a number of important commercial and academic hardware implementations of multithreading

Images/drawings of architecture primarily act as documentation of structures to help the audience (architects or clients) understand how architecture functions: the sense of space, physical relationship with the context, and circulation through different programs. Nevertheless, architectural images that focus not on functionally determine spaces but rather on an idea or provocation, also play a significant role in the representation of architecture. The role of architecture in these kinds of images can be beyond a shelter or accommodation. It can set up a stage to deliver messages; discuss historical, social, economic or political issues; or to express emotion or desire. Architects/artist have been using architecture images with perplexing spatial qualities as provocative, topical responses to actuality throughout history. For example, in the 18th century, Étienne-Louis Boullée sought to overthrow traditions of architectural drawings and use the drawings to celebrate the greatness of picture, the greatness satisfies human's soul and eager to extend its joys in every. In the 60s, Superstudio used a series of architecture collages to fight against market-driven architecture, and establish their goal to produce a system of infinite multiplications divisions and dimensions. Later on, Lebbeus Woods used his prominent drawings to evoke people's awareness of the provocative characteristic of architecture oppose to its retrospective presentation or documentation purpose. As a knowledge of base, this thesis project would research why and how the architects/ artists make the images in certain way to accomplish their expected effect by comparing the chosen images particularly on architects/artists' decision making on the scale of architecture pieces, not functionally determined spaces, materiality and pictorial perspective of the images and how these decisions result in different effect or affect. This thesis proposal is to call on the audiences (architects and non-professionals) to consider architecture's alternative role in architecture image beyond retrospective presentation. Also, to engage the audiences in awareness and discussion of the topical communication with the architects/artists. Based on the knowledge to set up a framework for this thesis project. What framework should be set to avoid documentation potentials of architecture? What to resist and or embrace to avoid the architecture image become functionally determined? And eventually, use this framework to produce images with speculative architecture on a ruin with potentially healing necessity as a mean to deliver personal desire of hope and joy and evoke personal responses from the audiences.

In Terminal Architecture, Martin Pawley argues that nearly all modern architecture is misconceived. To embrace a genuinely innovative architectural future would entail a radical shift in values and Pawley considers new vocabularies to achieve this aim. The vision described in Terminal Architecture is an apocalyptic one, spelling the end of architecture and the city as we know them, and cannot fail to stimulate debate. "Brilliant and beautifully written"--Jonathan Glancey, The Architects' Journal

Architecture Depends presents an original thesis that brings social theory, including that of Zygmunt Bauman and Bruno Latour, to bear on architectural theory and practice. Drawing on theories of critical pedagogy, contingency, and reflective practice, it presents a new paradigm for architectural thinking, recognised by the 2009 RIBA President's Award for Research (prize for outstanding university-based research). Reviews include Blueprint, Architects' Journal; the Times Higher Education Book of the Week; features on Nightwaves (BBC R3), Thinking Allowed (BBC R4). Publisher's text about the volume: Architecture depends — on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself. The everyday world is a disordered mess, from which architecture has retreated — and this retreat, says Till, is deluded. Architecture must engage with the inescapable reality of the world; in that engagement is the potential for a reformulation of architectural practice. Contingency should be understood as an opportunity rather than a threat. Elvis Costello said that his songs have to work when played through the cheapest transistor radio; for Till, architecture has to work (socially, spatially) by coping with the flux and vagaries of everyday life. Architecture, he proposes, must move from a reliance on the impulsive imagination of the lone genius to a confidence in the collaborative ethical imagination, from clinging to notions of total control to an intentional acceptance of letting go.

Chan Siu Kuen Peg. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1999-2000, design report." ; PROBLEMS IDENTIFICATION ; Present & Past Habitat ; Living Elements ; Living Lives ; Collective Memories ; social Changes ; Change of Development Trend --- p.35 ; Living & Senses ; Merleau-Ponty - 'Touch' ; Juhani Pallasmaa - 'Eye' ; Lisa Heschong - 'Gesture' ; Lisa Heschong - 'Gesture' ; Herzog De Meuron - Materials ; Kanzuyo Sejima - isolation --- p.43 ; Local Residential Street Lives ; Street Elements- Richness ; Street Setting - Human --- p.46 ; Cityscape ; Identity ; Tourism --- p.49 ; PROGRAMMING ; Project Brief ; Synopsis ; Building Types ; Clients ; Project Potential ; Economic Concerns ; Users --- p.54 ; Site Analysis ; Site ; History ; Site Context ; Building Age ; Land Uses ; Density ; Building Height ; Govt. Development Phases ; Proposed Building Site ; Site Constraints ; Site Selection Intent --- p.74

prepared by Lie Ning Gung. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Introduction ; Chapter Book I --- Hypothesis ; Chapter --- --- Genesis of Hanzi ; Chapter --- --- Esthetics of Hanzi ; Chapter --- --- A Living Being ; Chapter --- --- On Architecture ; Chapter Book II --- Concepts ; Chapter --- --- Dynamics ; Chapter --- --- Action ; Chapter --- --- Experience ; Chapter --- --- Program ; Chapter --- --- Site ; Chapter Book III --- Trials ; Chapter --- --- Conceptual Model ; Chapter --- --- Site ; Chapter --- --- Study Model ; Chapter --- --- Program ; Chapter --- --- The Project ; Chapter --- --- Epilogue ; Appendices ; Chapter I- --- Project Background ; Chapter --- --- Social & Political Context --- p.1-4 ; Chapter --- --- Historical & Cultural Context --- p.5-7 ; Chapter --- --- The Issue --- p.8-9 ; Chapter --- --- The Proposal --- p.10 ; Chapter --- --- Client Profile --- p.11 ; Chapter --- --- Mission --- p.12-13 ; Chapter II- --- Site ; Chapter --- --- History --- p.1-2 ; Chapter --- --- Land Use --- p.3 ; Chapter --- --- Circulation Studies --- p.4-8 ; Chapter --- --- Site Features --- p.9 ; Chapter --- --- Topology --- p.10 ; Chapter --- --- Site Constrains --- p.11 ; Chapter --- --- Potential & Cost --- p.12 ; Chapter --- --- Goals & PR --- p.13-18 ; Chapter III- --- Precedents studies ; Chapter IV- --- Interviews ; Acknowledgements ; Bibliography