Description
Architects are now taking advantage of the computer in new ways through experimentation with algorithmic and simulation-driven design. Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought focuses on this emerging theme in design practice, showcasing built and soon-to-be-built projects and providing a state of the art in computational design. Computational design is considered to be first a design tool, and second a series of instruments that can be applied in the creation of architecture. It allows architects to incorporate performance analysis and knowledge about material, tectonics and the parameters of production machinery. Moving towards a new role as hybrid practitioners, architects are taking concepts from other disciplines and customising architectural and other CAD software. In addition to the discussion of built projects, a further series of texts examines new custom software instruments. New digital tools provide new modes of representation, new methods of evaluation, and new techniques for design exploration. The development of new computational tools can create more responsive designs, allowing architects to explore new design options and to analyse architectural decisions during the design process. This issue raises important questions such as: How is computation changing the way architects design? Are the design tools and methods related to the result? What is computational design in the context of architectural practice? and How is computation changing the processes of design and construction?
CONTENTS
- About the GUEST-EDITORs / Brady Peters and Xavier De Kestelier
- Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought / Brady Peters
- Algorithmic Tectonics: How Cold War Era Research Shaped Our Imagination of Design / Daniel Cardoso Llach
- Recent Developments at Foster + Partners’ Specialist Modelling Group / Xavier de Kestelier
- Symmetry As Geometry: Kuwait International Airport / Kristoffer Josefsson
- Mathematical Ensemble: Molteni Arc Table / Jethro Hon
- Integrated Computational Design: National Bank of Kuwait Headquarters / Dusanka Popovska
- Networked Space / Dennis Shelden
- Spatial Computing for the New Organic / Christian Derix and Åsmund Izaki
- Structural Emergence: Architectural and Structural Design Collaborationat SOM / Keith Besserud, Neil Katz and Alessandro Beghini
- Realising the Architectural Idea: Computational Design at Herzog & De Meuron / Brady Peters
- Simulating the User Experience: Design Optimisation for Visitor Comfort / Shrikant Sharma and Al Fisher
- Bridging a Culture: The Design of Museo Soumaya / Fernando Romero and Armando Ramos
- Interoperability in Sports Design / David Hines
- From Model Thinking to Process Design / Jan Knippers
- Navigating the Computational Turn / Ben van Berkel
- Domesticating Parametric Design / Bruce Bell and Sarah Simpkin
- Planning by Parameters / Jeroen Zuidgeest, Sanne van der Burgh and Bas Kalmeyer
- After After Geometry / Michael Meredith
- Embedding Intelligence: Architecture and Computation at Grimshaw, NY / Seth Edwards
- Linking Structure and Parametric Geometry / Clemens Preisinger
- Undrawable Architecture: Heritage Buildings and Digital Tectonic / Stylianos Dritsas and Kang Shua Yeo
- Computational Fluid Dynamics for Architectural Design / Sawako Kaijima, Roland Bouffanais, Karen Willcox and Suresh Naidu
- Design Ecosystems: Customising the Architectural Design Environment With Software Plug-ins / Daniel Davis and Brady Peters
- Galapagos: On the Logic and Limitations of Generic Solvers / David Rutten
- Kangaroo: Form Finding with Computational Physics / Daniel Piker
- Pachyderm Acoustical Simulation: Towards Open-Source Sound Analysis / Arthur van der Harten
- WeaverBird: Topological Mesh Editing for Architects / Giulio Piacentino
- Geco™: Architectural Design Through Environmental Feedback / Thomas Grabner and Ursula Frick
- Firefly: Interactive Prototypes for Architectural Design / Andrew O Payne and Jason Kelly Johnson
152 pages / 21 x 27,5 cm / English
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