EDITORIAL

摘要

In recent decades, computation has become an established driver of architectural exploration - perhaps only rivalled by sustainability. This was most conspicuously the case in the late 1990s and early noughties with the rise of Blob Architecture, which optimised the use of computer-aided design (CAD) in the creation of new geometries and amoebic, cellular-like forms for iconic buildings. (The trend for blobs and NURBS coincided with a construction boom and a raft of high-profile cultural buildings, such as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Foster + Partners'The Sage Gateshead.)