Architects' drawings reflect a sequence of design actions, from primitive moves to complex strategies. Careful analysis of drawings can reveal an architect's method of design. Graphics Interpreter of Design Action (GIDA) is a graphical spreadsheet sorting program to help researchers and designers identify and analyze individual drawings and their symbol systems, as well as the transformations of composite elements in a series of drawings.

web page: http://depts.washington.edu/dmgftp/publications/cf01-gida.html

researchers: Ellen Yi-Luen Do

publications:

• 2002 Functional and Formal Reasoning in Architectural Sketches
• 2002 Drawing Marks, Acts, and Reacts, toward a computational sketching interface for architectural design
• 2001 Graphics Interpreter of Design Actions - the GIDA system of diagram sorting and analysis
• 2000 Intentions in and Relations among Design Drawings

presentations:

• GIDA CAAD Futures 2001 Presentation •