ABSTRACT
In avant-garde contemporary architectural design, various digital generative and production processes are opening up new territories for conceptual, formal and tectonic exploration, articulating an architectural morphology focused on the emergent and adaptive properties of form.1
In a radical departure from centuries-old traditions and norms of architectural design, digitally-generated forms are not designed or drawn as the conventional understanding of these terms would have it, but they are calculated by the chosen generative computational method. Instead of working on a parti, the designer constructs a generative system of formal production, controls its behavior over time, and selects forms that emerge from its operation. The emphasis shifts from the “making of form” to the “finding of form,” which various digitally-based generative techniques seem to bring about intentionally.
