ABSTRACT
ARCHITECTURAL FORM GENERATION Recent years have brought a renaissance of freeforms — designers today are formally less constrained as a result of advances in computer technology. In Kiesler’s formgeneration process, the sketches and physical models were not linked — they had the same origin but the geometries were not exactly the same. Today, a digital model that links design and manufacturing processes is a basic condition for realizing freeform architectures. How the digital models are generated depends on the design process, which can vary distinctly from one designer to another or even from project to project. In addition, each geometrically complex project presents different challenges for structural design and can result in different digital working processes, as each of the four projects7
described below demonstrates.
