A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A meaningful building of the digital age is not just any building that was designed and built using digital tools: it is one that could not have been either designed or built without them. Alert designers have ideas about what the new tools are and what they can do, and this intelligence inspires them to imagine unprecedented solutions. The emergence of a new digital tectonics in the early 1990s paralleled the technical development of spline modellers, a new generation of software that allowed the manipulation of curved lines directly on the screen, using graphic interfaces such as vectors and control points. Today, many technologically savvy designers use open‐source software, or exploit other collaborative aspects of networked technologies, but few or none envisage to develop open‐sourceable architectural design. Design and building have always been participatory endeavours, as no one can make a building all alone.
A meaningful building of the digital age is not just any building that was designed and built using digital tools: it is one that could not have been either designed or built without them. Alert designers have ideas about what the new tools are and what they can do, and this intelligence inspires them to imagine unprecedented solutions. The emergence of a new digital tectonics in the early 1990s paralleled the technical development of spline modellers, a new generation of software that allowed the manipulation of curved lines directly on the screen, using graphic interfaces such as vectors and control points. Today, many technologically savvy designers use open‐source software, or exploit other collaborative aspects of networked technologies, but few or none envisage to develop open‐sourceable architectural design. Design and building have always been participatory endeavours, as no one can make a building all alone.
Introduction: Twenty Years of Digital Design
Carpo, Mario (editor)
2013-03-27
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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