A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Algorithmic landscapes : computational methods for the mediation of form, information, and performance in landscape architecture ; Algorithmische Landschaften : Rechenmethoden zur Vermittlung zwischen Form, Information und Performance in der Landschaftsarchitektur
Recent design discourse in landscape architecture has shown a prejudice against rigid formal systems and has advocated systems that promote self-organization, emergence, and indeterminacy, as well as non-linear systems and thinking. A growing number of landscape architectural practices have seized upon the thinking and tools associated with dynamic systems in order not only to create new types of formal expression, but in the hope that more performative landscapes can be conceived and implemented. The role of the designer in such projects shifts from that of the artist who gives concrete form and definition to a project, to the engineer of a system, who sets in motion a process or series of processes that will ultimately lead to a range of possible futures and associated forms. The development of algorithms, in the form of scripts and codes, presents a way for the designer to more rigorously study the behavior of complex systems and the formal, spatial, and evolutionary implications of dynamic processes. Already, disciplines at the edges of landscape architecture, from the natural science such as geomorphology and botany, to the applied sciences such as environmental engineering and planning, have expanded their thinking through algorithmic simulations and models, in order to answer fundamental questions concerning the behavior of dynamic systems and the emergence of form in nature. Computer scientists have been particularly interested in an algorithmic description of nature for ends ranging from improving graphical representation, to generating believable artificial worlds, to improving artificial intelligence. For landscape architects and designers, applying such algorithmic processes and thinking allow the designer to use the computer not only as a tool of production and representation, but as a potential tool for analysis and design. While the holistic approach of Landscape architects should not require the same training and approach as that of the engineers and coders of complex systems, in order to fulfill ...
Algorithmic landscapes : computational methods for the mediation of form, information, and performance in landscape architecture ; Algorithmische Landschaften : Rechenmethoden zur Vermittlung zwischen Form, Information und Performance in der Landschaftsarchitektur
Recent design discourse in landscape architecture has shown a prejudice against rigid formal systems and has advocated systems that promote self-organization, emergence, and indeterminacy, as well as non-linear systems and thinking. A growing number of landscape architectural practices have seized upon the thinking and tools associated with dynamic systems in order not only to create new types of formal expression, but in the hope that more performative landscapes can be conceived and implemented. The role of the designer in such projects shifts from that of the artist who gives concrete form and definition to a project, to the engineer of a system, who sets in motion a process or series of processes that will ultimately lead to a range of possible futures and associated forms. The development of algorithms, in the form of scripts and codes, presents a way for the designer to more rigorously study the behavior of complex systems and the formal, spatial, and evolutionary implications of dynamic processes. Already, disciplines at the edges of landscape architecture, from the natural science such as geomorphology and botany, to the applied sciences such as environmental engineering and planning, have expanded their thinking through algorithmic simulations and models, in order to answer fundamental questions concerning the behavior of dynamic systems and the emergence of form in nature. Computer scientists have been particularly interested in an algorithmic description of nature for ends ranging from improving graphical representation, to generating believable artificial worlds, to improving artificial intelligence. For landscape architects and designers, applying such algorithmic processes and thinking allow the designer to use the computer not only as a tool of production and representation, but as a potential tool for analysis and design. While the holistic approach of Landscape architects should not require the same training and approach as that of the engineers and coders of complex systems, in order to fulfill ...
Algorithmic landscapes : computational methods for the mediation of form, information, and performance in landscape architecture ; Algorithmische Landschaften : Rechenmethoden zur Vermittlung zwischen Form, Information und Performance in der Landschaftsarchitektur
Claghorn, Joseph (author)
2018-01-01
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Electronic Resource
English
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