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Generative Design Methods and the Exploration of Worlds of Formal Possibility
Five decades after Ivan Sutherland first launched ‘SketchPad’, computer‐aided design has entered the engineering mainstream. That strand in architectural computing which pursues the potential of generative design systems has, however, followed an entirely different course. Here Philip Steadman, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London (UCL), criticises such approaches, and instead argues for a ‘design science’ that lays out worlds of possible plans and forms from which designers can choose.
Generative Design Methods and the Exploration of Worlds of Formal Possibility
Five decades after Ivan Sutherland first launched ‘SketchPad’, computer‐aided design has entered the engineering mainstream. That strand in architectural computing which pursues the potential of generative design systems has, however, followed an entirely different course. Here Philip Steadman, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London (UCL), criticises such approaches, and instead argues for a ‘design science’ that lays out worlds of possible plans and forms from which designers can choose.
Generative Design Methods and the Exploration of Worlds of Formal Possibility
Steadman, Philip (author)
Architectural Design ; 84 ; 24-31
2014-09-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
‘Sketchpad’ system , Frank Brown , Chomskian linguistics , William Mitchell, Philip Steadman and Robin Liggett , Manuel , First World War , Palladian villas by George Stiny , Ivan Sutherland , British Local Government Board , Timothy Johnson , Massachusetts University of Technology (MIT) , DIS (‘dissection’) , Ulrich Flemming , LOOS program
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