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Book SynopsisThe current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the generation of integrated systems through designer-authored computational processes.
Table of ContentsForeword Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist
Introduction
Computational Design Thinking
Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges
Formation and Transformation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On the Theory of Transformations, Or the Comparison of Related Forms
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Variational Evolution
Ernst Mayr
The Meaning of General System Theory
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Systems Generating Systems
Christopher Alexander
The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics
Gordon Pask
Towards a Humanism Through Machines
Nicholas Negroponte
A New Agenda for Computer-Aided Design
William J Mitchell
Algorithmic Form
Kostas Terzidis
Architecture and Practical Design Computation
Mark Burry
An Introduction to Creative Evolutionary Systems
Peter J Bentley and David W Corne
Constrained Generating Procedures
John H Holland
Real Virtuality
Manuel DeLanda
A Natural Model for Architecture
John Frazer
Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence
Michael Weinstock
Philosophy of Mathematics for Computational Design:
Spatial Intuition Versus Logic
Jane Burry
Associative Design: From Type to Population
Peter Trummer
Integral Formation and Materialisation:
Computational Form and Material Gestalt
Achim Menges
The Computational Fallacy
Sanford Kwinter
Select Bibliography
Index
