algorithmic architecture

great

(it looks like you could do some code refactoring)

this is no more radical (or absurd) that the modernist aproach, only with more compute potential, and we all know the modern consequences of that "tomorrow that never came" (matter acumulation, energy waste, modern ruins, overcrowding...). the computer power i think is on the capacity to understand the material world, to make more with less, zero impact, reversibility, lightness, to left some room for the people for the future. i hope this messege get to you. cheers from Chile -n.ortiz

ok so let's take the facts:
1 - more than half of the architects and urban planners are located in the Europe and North America which count only for 15-20% of the global population;
2 - considering the growth prediction, as compared to the rate of training of new designers is it realistic that we can always have the necessary human resources to plan new cities?
For this reasons I think that having a program can design a city might be useful in the near future.

I was about to trash this video, but then I read the conclusion, and I couldn't agree more.

Stupid people would use this kind of programming just because it looks cool and does everything by itself, without even thinking about the best solution. It's like the infite monkey theory.

I also think that this kind of architecture should not be of mainstream knowledge for the very reason I just said.

Machines are meant to be used by a brain, and not the other way. Anybody else agrees?

have you heard of lars spuijbroek? he's a professor and leads studios related to this field.

Yea I really like his book, Machining Architecture, particularly when he talks of these methods as being the architecture of the provisional rather than optimal.

Some other references I always come back to:
Manuel De Landa, Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture

Neil Leach, Digital Morphogenesis (In AD 79, 1, 2009)

Kostas Terzidis, Algorithmic Architecture

John Frazer, An evolutionary Architecture


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what's up with everyone using this song in their animations

Great job dude! Congrats!

that's intelligent. nice drawings at the end!

nicely done!!