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About CAADRIA2025

    The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) was established to promote the dissemination of information on computer-aided design among research and educational institutions in the fields of architecture, urban engineering, and information technology in Asia. Since then, 28 annual conferences have been held in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries.

    The conferences provide an opportunity for teachers, students, researchers, and practitioners to meet each other and learn about the latest research in the field. In recent years, research has expanded beyond the initial CAD framework into the field of architectural informatics, capturing trends in diverse information fields related to architecture. Furthermore, the number of accepted papers has increased rapidly in this active conference.

    Japan is one of the founding countries of CAADRIA. While previous conferences have been held at Osaka University, Kumamoto University, and Kyoto Institute of Technology, it will be the first time in Tokyo. Therefore, with CAADRIA 2025, we aim to make Japanese researchers aware of international trends and provide an opportunity for overseas researchers to engage with the uniqueness and advanced nature of Japanese research.

    CAADRIA has traditionally set the registration fee for students at about half price. Furthermore, the conference also has an awarding system for excellent papers, such as the Young CAADRIA Award, and the registration fee is waived for young researchers who receive the award. In addition to research presentations, there will be a Post Graduate Consortium, a session for doctoral students to exchange opinions on their research policies, and educational workshops where students can learn through direct use of digital fabrication equipment, IoT equipment, XR equipment, etc. These are valuable opportunities for students from the host country to participate and be motivated to explore new fields. In addition, exchanges with leading foreign researchers strengthen international relationships and foster research collaborations.

    We believe that the purpose of holding this event is to contribute to the development of the architectural information field through the wide-ranging exchanges among students and researchers.

Prof. Yasushi Ikeda, Chair of CAADRIA2025

Conference Theme: Architectural Informatics

    The concepts of architecture and cities are historically intrinsic to human civilization, as a consciousness of mankind's need to construct artificial environments. However, decades after the advent of computers, we are now reconsidering their existence against the backdrop of the rapid expansion and evolution of information technology and its profound impact on industry, the economy, daily life, and society.

    The quantum acceleration of information processing and communication has had a profound impact on the design of all kinds of artifacts, production techniques, management systems, and usage patterns, and has already surpassed the traditional concept of design and its support methods. By considering social activities and human organizations as forms of information processing, we can reconsider architecture and cities as information systems that have been constructed, accumulated, and acted upon. Viewing architecture and cities through this lens suggests that real and virtual spaces should not be seen as opposing entities, but rather as complementary components within a unified system.

    In other words, information may be architecture. With “Architectural Informatics” as the theme of CAADRIA's 30th anniversary, we would like to reexamine the fundamental existence of architecture in the age of information technology.

Prof. Yasushi Ikeda, Chair of CAADRIA2025

Topics

  • Artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning

  • Building Information Modeling (BIM)

  • City Information Modeling (CIM)

  • Collective, collaborative & interdisciplinary design

  • Computational design research & education

  • Design cognition and human-computer interaction

  • Disrupted practices, resilience, and social sustainability

  • Environmental and ecological performance

  • Generative, algorithmic & evolutionary design

  • Digital Heritage

  • Interactive environments

  • Material systems, processes and assembly

  • Practice-based design research

  • Robotics, digital fabrication and construction

  • Simulation, visualisation and impact projection

  • Theory, philosophy & methodology of computational design research

  • Urban analytics, big data analysis and smart cities

  • AR / VR / XR

  • Application of technology in the context of the Asia-Pacific Region

© CAADRIA2025 Organizing committee

© CAADRIA2025 Organizing committee

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