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  1. Plan-based occlusion maps: Theoretical overview and parametric variations

    Article • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, April 2026, SAGE Publications

    Mike Christenson

  2. Reframing BIM: Toward Epistemic Resilience in Existing-Building Representation

    Article • Infrastructures, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Mike Christenson

  3. Knowledge practices for Revit and Rhino: Manual schematic modeling of existing buildings

    Article • International Journal of Architectural Computing, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Mike Christenson

  4. Differentiation in Existing-Building Modelling: The Case of the Barcelona Pavilion

    Article • Visual Resources, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  5. Parametric Analysis as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation: A Case Study of the Federal Archive Building in New York City

    Article • Infrastructures, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Mike Christenson

  6. Parametric analysis of existing-building geometry: Generative, dissective, and morphological approaches

    Article • International Journal of Architectural Computing, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Mike Christenson

  7. Architectural epistemology, existing buildings, and single-image modeling

    Article • Enquiry The ARCC Journal for Architectural Research, June 2024, Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research

    Mike Christenson

  8. An emergent ontology for digitally modeling existing buildings: examining Kyoto’s Nishiki market

    Article • Archnet-IJAR International Journal of Architectural Research, May 2024, Emerald

    Mike Christenson

  9. Embodied and Operational Carbon Analysis: A Grasshopper-Based Method for Visually Comparing Impacts of Material Choices

    Article • January 2024, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Inc

    Mike Christenson

  10. Problematizing the model-building duality: Examining the New Sacristy at S. Lorenzo, Florence, Italy

    Article • Frontiers of Architectural Research, August 2023, Elsevier

    Mike Christenson

  11. The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility

    Article • Design Studies, March 2023, Elsevier

    Mike Christenson

  12. 35th PLEA Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2020).

    Article • March 2021, Universidade da Coruna

    Mike Christenson

  13. Editorial

    Article • Architectural Science Review, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  14. Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation

    Article • March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  15. Review: Google Earth and Google Earth Voyager

    Article • Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2019, University of California Press

    Mike Christenson

  16. The Death of the Desk Crit

    Article • January 2019, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Inc

    Mike Christenson

  17. Critical Dimensions in Architectural Photography: Contributions to Architectural Knowledge

    Article • Architecture_MPS, February 2017, UCL Press

    Mike Christenson

  18. Kinds of designing and their functions in analyzing

    Article • International Journal of Technology and Design Education, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Christenson

  19. Beginning Design Technology

    Article • December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  20. Editorial

    Article • Architectural Science Review, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  21. Isovist-Based Occlusion Maps Representing Critical Variations in Le Corbusier's Museum of Unlimited Extension

    Article • Environment and Planning B Planning and Design, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Mike Christenson

  22. On the architectural structure of photographic space

    Article • Architectural Science Review, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  23. <i>Viewpoint:</i> “From the Unknown to the Known”: Transitions in the Architectural Vernacular

    Article • Buildings & Landscapes Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, January 2011, Project Muse

    Mike Christenson

  24. <i>Census of Places That Matter</i> (review)

    Article • Buildings & Landscapes Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, January 2011, Project Muse

    Mike Christenson

  25. Registering visual permeability in architecture: isovists and occlusion maps in AutoLISP

    Article • Environment and Planning B Planning and Design, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Mike Christenson

  26. Testing the Relevance of Parameterization to Architectural Epistemology

    Article • Architectural Science Review, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Christenson

  27. On the Use of Occlusion Maps to Examine Additions to Existing Buildings

    Article • January 2009, Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

    Mike Christenson