The New Science of Form‐Searching

Carpo, Mario

doi:10.1002/ad.1949

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“…As an example, consider Mario Carpo’s 2015 speculation on the potential of “searching without sorting (also known as the art of finding stuff without knowing where it is)” as a generative instrument in design. 48 Years before animated “latent space walks” entered into the architectural imagination, Carpo offered the prescient observation that unstructured search may provide an antidote to both the explicit rule-based approaches of parametric design and the highly structured semantic approach found in BIM systems. Carpo observed that this “new big-data science of searching” appears to be alien to existing methods of design, and possibly also deeper aspects of the Western philosophical tradition.…”

Section: Scene 2—the Early 2000smentioning

confidence: 99%

Clever little tricks: A socio-technical history of text-to-image generative models

Steinfeld

2023

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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The emergence of text-to-image generative models (e.g., Midjourney, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion) in the summer of 2022 impacted architectural visual culture suddenly, severely, and seemingly out of nowhere. To contextualize this phenomenon, this text offers a socio-technical history of text-to-image generative systems. Three moments in time, or “scenes,” are presented here: the first at the advent of AI in the middle of the last century; the second at the “reawakening” of a specific approach to machine learning at the turn of this century; the third that documents a rapid sequence of innovations, dubbed “clever little tricks,” that occurred across just 18 months. This final scene is the crux, and represents the first formal documentation of the recent history of a specific set of informal innovations. These innovations were produced by non-affiliated researchers and communities of creative contributors, and directly led to the technologies that so compellingly captured the architectural imagination in the summer of 2022. Across these scenes, we examine the technologies, application domains, infrastructures, social contexts, and practices that drive technical research and shape creative practice in this space.

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Section: Scene 2—the Early 2000smentioning

confidence: 99%

Clever little tricks: A socio-technical history of text-to-image generative models

Steinfeld

2023

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…With a focus on analysis and translation, the methods preference accessibility and democratization by using industry standard tools and consumer-grade software and minimizing material cost. Irregular material, harvested from fallen trees on campus, functions as a complex generator containing information on form, age, structure, texture, and more (Carpo 2017). The students are enrolled in the third year of a non-professional, undergraduate, four-year architecture program.…”

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Learning from Logs: Introductory Analog and Digital Pedagogy Addressing Material Irregularity

Schumann¹

2022

CAADRIA Proceedings

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Advanced computational visioning, modeling and fabrication technologies are becoming increasingly accessible to nonexpert users, allowing designers to engage complex forms and materials with increasing control and precision. Nonetheless, beginning designers often struggle to maintain authorship when mastering new software, resulting in designs shaped by the biases of the digital tools at hand. The act of translation between physical and digital poses particular difficulty. This paper presents a sequential pedagogy in which students are introduced to both manual and digital analytical and fabrication processes with the goal of understanding, analyzing, and addressing material irregularity. Techniques and tools employed include digital modeling in Rhinoceros, 3D scanning, computational analysis in Grasshopper, traditional woodshop tools, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC routing. The outcomes and criteria for evaluating student projects are discussed: in particular, the learning opportunities afforded by using irregularly sized and shaped material that allowed students to develop creative ways of working with standard woodworking and digital fabrication tools. Additional challenges due to virtual teaching and financial considerations are addressed through salvaged materials and democratized technologies.

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“…This term emphasizes that the form of the structure is the output of the design process: a "form-active structure" (Veenendaal & Block 2012) that expresses a "figure of equilibrium" (Linkwitz 1999) in compliance with the external and internal forces. It can also be considered as the result of an iterative procedure based on an experimental approach (Bletzinger & Ramm 2014;Ramm 2004) and subject to the law of causality (Carpo 2015).…”

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The geometric design of the “Guarinesque” vaults in Banz and Vierzehnheiligen in relation to the treatises of stereotomy

Boller¹,

D'Acunto²

2021

History of Construction Cultures

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Form finding is an effective approach for the conceptual design of structures. In the 1950s and 1960s, various form finding techniques flourished to create geometries that could not be realized with analytical models or graphical methods alone. The development of contemporary form finding owes much to the seminal work of a number of structural designers of the period, notably Frei Otto, Heinz Isler and Sergio Musmeci. The scientific cultures to which they belonged led to differentiated results in their research and design. This paper examines the approaches to the form finding of Otto, Isler and Musmeci, looking in particular at the inspirations, methods and visions of these protagonists in the history of structural design.

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The New Science of Form‐Searching

Cited by 6 publications

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Clever little tricks: A socio-technical history of text-to-image generative models

Clever little tricks: A socio-technical history of text-to-image generative models

Learning from Logs: Introductory Analog and Digital Pedagogy Addressing Material Irregularity

The geometric design of the “Guarinesque” vaults in Banz and Vierzehnheiligen in relation to the treatises of stereotomy

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