COMPUTATION WORKS: THE BUILDING OF ALGORITHMIC THOUGHT

摘要

Computation is redefining the practice of architecture. Architects are developing digital tools that create opportunities in design process, fabrication and construction. Using built architectural projects, this issue of AD provides insight into emerging design approaches that use computation as a design method. While this issue aims for a balance of ideas, scales of work, and types of practices, it is not a cross-section through all of architecture, but rather a presentation of state-of-the-art uses of computation. But what do we mean by computation? Most architects now use computers, but usually to simply digitise existing procedures with entities or processes that are preconceived in the mind of the designer. For example, architects use the computer as a virtual drafting board making it easier to edit, copy and increase the precision of drawings.