A dichotomy pervades universities and practice: computation is a technical skill and (good) designers only use computation as tools. People who use computer code, do not do 'proper' architecture; and people who do 'proper' architecture, do not do code. This chasm, reinforced by categorical thinking within academia and between academia and profession, has led to designers using scripting to pride themselves of producing aesthetics that clearly do not categorise as conventional architecture. While 'proper' architects like to think in typologies, coders like to think in complex-looking shapes. With the onset of computing in design, architects do not understand their tools any more as much as many computational designers do not understand architecture. A middle ground, which Paul Coates calls the 'new epistemology', appears unattractive as quick gratification is delayed by years of learning two disciplines. But only if knowledge of both disciplines is synthesised can a new epistemology, a new model of architecture, emerge.
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