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ijac20042301 |
| authors |
Senagala, Mahesh |
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2004 |
| title |
Deconstructing the Software Interface:A Critical Close Reading of AutoCAD |
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International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 2 - no. 3, 299-314 |
| summary |
AutoCAD maintains a nearly 70% market share in the PC-based AEC sector and wields enormous influence over design and production processes in architectural firms and schools. Such an impact is, perhaps, more than what a single building can hope to achieve. The design implications of such a market monopoly are many. Based on Derridean operations of Deconstruction, the paper will deconstruct AutoCAD's latent agenda. The paper will do a critical close reading of AutoCAD for its design preferences, spatial conceptions, worldviews, resistances, stratifications and organizational predispositions with respect to architectural design process. For purposes of brevity, this paper will focus on the architecture of AutoCAD's interface. The results of the paper would be the beginning of a critical theory that can be employed in the process of software design for design professions. |
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http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ijac.htm |
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