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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. While there is a particular history of such an approach in architecture, its relative newness requires the continued progression of novel modes of design thinking for the architect of the 21st century. This AD Reader establishes a foundation for such thinking. It includes multifaceted reflections and speculations on the profound influence of computational paradigms on architecture. It presents relevant principles from the domains of mathematics and computer science, developmental and evolutionary biology, system science and philosophy, establishing a discourse for computational design thinking in architecture. Rather than a merely technical approach, the
Table of Contents8 Preface
Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist 10 Introduction
Computational Design Thinking
Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges
30 Formation and Transformation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
32 On the Theory of Transformations, or the Comparison of Related Forms
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
42 Variational Evolution
Ernst Mayr
50 The Meaning of General System Theory
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
58 Systems Generating Systems
Christopher Alexander
68 The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics
Gordon Pask
78 Towards a Humanism Through Machines
Nicholas Negroponte
86 A New Agenda for Computer-Aided Design
William J Mitchell
94 Algorithmic Form
Kostas Terzidis
102 Architecture and Practical Design Computation
Mark Burry
120 An Introduction to Creative Evolutionary Systems
Peter J Bentley and David W Corne
131 Constrained Generating Procedures
John H Holland
142 Real Virtuality
Manuel DeLanda
149 A Natural Model for Architecture
John Frazer
158 Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence
Michael Weinstock
168 Philosophy of Mathematics for Computational Design: Spatial Intuition Versus Logic
Jane Burry
179 Associative Design: From Type to Population
Peter Trummer
198 Integral Formation and Materialisation: Computational Form and Material Gestalt
Achim Menges
211 The Computational Fallacy
Sanford Kwinter
216 Select Bibliography
218 Index
