The Computational Fallacy

Kwinter, Sanford

doi:10.1162/thld_a_00366

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“…order and shape'. (Kwinter, 2003) With understanding these methods we might 'use computation to engage aspects of the natural world whose logic previously remained unattained because they are too great and removed from the modalities of a designer's sense of intuition,'. (Kwinter, 2003) Within this scaffold, we may also, through iterative processes, de-velop a framework which is capable of opening novel possibilities to consider material not as a passive predetermined element in design processes but rather as an active generator forming the design processes in current architecture.…”

Section: Therefore 'The Implication Here Is the Idea Of Learning How To Make Matter Model Matter Or How To Study Natural Or 'Wild' Intellmentioning

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Material Computation for a New Equilibrium in Architecture

Teimoori¹

2021

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Morphogenesis defines the schema of natural material formations as a set of merging self-organized behaviours, rules, relative forces, and limits of materialization that analytically characterize a spatial arrangement within a specific environment for achieving an equilibrium state. However, in architecture, material organization, which acts as a threshold to space, has always been treated as a secondary component in design processes. This attitude has reduced the capability to generate an architecture that is intelligently aware of its functionality and of its environment. Transforming computational models of biological systems into the computational logic of material organization found in architecture would produce an architecture that is a product of full interactions between those material logics and space. This inquiry elaborates a set of biological computational frameworks to cultivate stratified developments of knowledge-based architectural prototypes of complex hybrid-structure material morphologies as contextual schemata

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Section: Therefore 'The Implication Here Is the Idea Of Learning How To Make Matter Model Matter Or How To Study Natural Or 'Wild' Intellmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Just as a gestalt switch deciphered and decoded the invisible character of phenomena, just as 'Lucretius hydraulic hypothesis freed humans from the capriciousness and prejudices of the gods', material computation may free us from deterministic deductive nature of a linear way of phenomenological thinking in architecture. (Kwinter, 2003)…”

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Material Computation for a New Equilibrium in Architecture

Teimoori¹

2021

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“…The shape of a building can be understood as the outcome of formative processes and comes about through the interaction of internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures (Kwinter 2003). Utilizing environmental parameters like sun and wind to inform and argue design decisions are a wellestablished approach within architectural history.…”

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Parametric Patchwork Advancing the Development of an Organic Photovoltaic Carrier System through Various Computational Methods

Carl¹,

Schein²

2019

Blucher Design Proceedings

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This paper presents a strategy for implementing computational methods in education to solve specific project related research challenges. In our case, we investigate novel solutions for Organic Photovoltaic Carrier Systems. Therefore, environmental forces (especially the sun and shade) are important design drivers in all projects. Whilst the individual projects are limited to one semester, it is our aim to advance and accumulate these patches within a longer-term research strategy. Especially design-build projects that include digital fabrication often require a skillset not always available in a design studio environment. Providing simple parametric patches frees up time for creative investigations and allows tackling projects that are more complex. In the following, we will present and discuss a series of patches developed over the course of five projects that became our case studies. We conclude, by identifying relevant aspects that might be generalized and evaluate our insights for others.

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“…14 With his experience as tutor of Diploma . 16 Yet the dominance of this digital orthodoxy, which is, we argue, deprived of content and critically unproductive, has prompted a rethinking of the implementation of digital technologies within design research studios. In these studios, technologies complement other architectural research themes, reclaiming the digital's potential to be productive and ultimately socially significant.…”

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Digital redux: the confluence of technologies and politics in architecture

Gil¹

2015

Arq

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Much has been written on the impact of digital technology and its translation into architectural practice and education. This paper reconsiders this process of integration to question current trends in research and pedagogy. Recent efforts to expand architectural research in schools tend to focus on broadening its spectrum while reinforcing design as research. We argue that the relevance of digital technology to these discussions, and its role in expanding fields of research, depends on different cultures of investigation and their differing institutional contexts. Our interest is in cultures that, as lines of thought, broaden the field of architectural research and make it heterodox, thickening a line of research with multiple interpretations. Tracing early experiences in the ‘paperless’ studios of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, this paper questions how architectural pedagogies are developing in response to the current normalisation of digital design, with a focus on the Architecture Association's Design Research Lab (DRL) and the Strelka Institute in Moscow.Ultimately, the main question is addressed: in what ways can the digital be political? By referring to the DRL and Strelka research programmes, two distinct approaches have been critically explored. On the one hand, DRL has been pushing to the limit the idea of research by design, considering autonomous form as the materialisation of change in the design process, while Strelka has been practicing research as the information for design. If digital technology contributes to form generation at DRL, at Strelka it potentiates opinion generation, and the research product is information, rather than form itself. The triangulation of both approaches could eventually suggest a more thorough political expression by means of a digital redux.

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The Computational Fallacy

Cited by 13 publications

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Material Computation for a New Equilibrium in Architecture

Material Computation for a New Equilibrium in Architecture

Parametric Patchwork Advancing the Development of an Organic Photovoltaic Carrier System through Various Computational Methods

Digital redux: the confluence of technologies and politics in architecture

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