hellalpha (May 14, 2008 at 11:15 am)

Wow, Dan your work has come a long way since I last saw you. Am trying to rework some FEM algorithms so we can use structural fitness as the selection criteria. Stop by in the 5th year studio sometime

proadmin1 (May 4, 2008 at 4:14 am)

Quite an accomplishment, however, have you considered a fitness goal upon your GA, which maximizes total interior space or possibly a predation constraint along the same lines?

lifesart1 (April 1, 2008 at 2:36 pm)

amazing ... architecture is beautiful in each of its forms cause through architecture numbers get shapes not the other way around

damianpoirier (March 30, 2008 at 1:30 pm)

Architecture should just stand for one thing and that's the human being and nothing else...says the guy who's never designed a dog house. hehe

damianpoirier (March 30, 2008 at 1:25 pm)

Having worked extensivly with GA's I'm suprised that anyone would think to take on such an extensive project as this. What fitness function did you apply?

codester1111 (March 20, 2008 at 3:51 pm)

Look at the trends even in my short life time. Many many jobs have and ar becoming more and more automated. We live in the trasition phase between a human controlled and ran society and a completely machine controlled society. The future is an A.I. controlled world, get used to it.

dmmd123 (March 1, 2008 at 4:57 am)

I think you are missing the point.This is not some random shape being generated on a computer, for the sake of. (although I agree is some fairly naive and superficial applications of the computer.) In this project a genetic algorithm was used to incrementally improve on a design (one criteria for improve would be 'fit for human inhabitation'). While this example fails, there is evidence to suggest that computers will be able to augment the design process, improving the results.

RoyGropius (February 28, 2008 at 11:44 pm)

Is this a joke, or what?You guys are really discussing this theme. It makes me so upset that today architecture is developing in this direction (computer design, iconography, strange shapes...). dmmd123 tells us that 'architecture is art' and i totally disagree! Architecture should just stand for one thing and that's the human being and nothing else...

cmielack (February 10, 2008 at 1:20 am)

I love the discussion here!I totally agree to the opinion, that algorithms and math _can_ result in great architecture. This even applies to alot more than just architecture. The art is properly defining the problem mathematically so that you can derive the answer mathematically.Math is just reformulated thinking. If your thoughts cannot be formulated through existing mathematical terms, define your own!

DavidMTRutten (January 21, 2008 at 9:44 pm)

If you think for one minute that writing a program that makes the shape you want is less creative (or less "human") than just drawing the shape, you're woefully mistaken. The trick is to find out what humans do best and what computers do best and then to combine these worlds to maximum effect. Algorithmic architecture is almost like meta-architecture, which has intimate rewards that are unknown within traditional design.