Digital information technology today is an ‘essential agent of innovation[1]’,
whereby software is the key to managing ‘complexly
articulated designs[2]’
and where models aid the ‘exchange of
information[3]’.
The algorithms associated with many CAD programs support the breakdown of ‘complex strategies[4]’,
however ‘human reasoning still governs
the selection of appropriate input parameters[5]’.
When CAD software was introduced along with Splines and Blobs, ‘standard detail drawings[6]’
were being replaced because of designs that incorporated ‘non-regular shapes[7]’,
and therefore ‘every panel and every
joint had a slightly different geometry[8]’.
Before long, designers had to ‘come up with unambiguous, well-defined,
formal descriptions, syntactically correct to the last semicolon[9]’.
Parametric modelling appears to make the designing process a lot easier,
however ‘both descriptions (algorithms
and a set of drawings) define the same degree of complexity, only in different
languages[10]’.
The introduction of digital information technology and modelling makes the
design through building stage less ‘time-consuming
and error-prone[11]’.
With digital information influencing contemporary architecture today, the
relationship between construction and architecture that once existed ‘could potentially re-emerge as an
unintended but fortunate outcome of the new digital processes of production[12]’.
This relationship creates ‘mutually
beneficial processes of direct information exchange[13]’,
where the ‘digital model becomes the
single source of design and production information that is generated … which
encodes all the information needed to manufacture and construct the building[14]’. This digital environment ultimately can ‘provide any information about any
qualitative or quantitative aspect of a building under design or construction[15]’.
The change that is currently taking place across the architecture and design
faculties is ‘inevitable and unavoidable[16]’,
there are many obstacles however the ‘rewards
are compelling[17]’.
[1] Kolarevic, B. and Klinger, K. (2008). Manufacturing
material effects. Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. New York:
Routledge. p26
[2] Kolarevic, B. and Klinger, K. (2008). Manufacturing
material effects. Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. New York:
Routledge. p26
[3] Kolarevic, B. and Klinger, K. (2008). Manufacturing
material effects. Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. New York:
Routledge. p26
[4] Kolarevic, B. and Klinger, K. (2008). Manufacturing
material effects. Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. New York:
Routledge. p27
[5] Kolarevic, B. and Klinger, K. (2008). Manufacturing
material effects. Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. New York:
Routledge. p27
[6] Scheurer,
F. (2014). Materialising Complexity. Theories of the digital in architecture.
R. Oxman and R. Oxman: p89
[7] Scheurer,
F. (2014). Materialising Complexity. Theories of the digital in architecture.
R. Oxman and R. Oxman: p89
[8] Scheurer,
F. (2014). Materialising Complexity. Theories of the digital in architecture.
R. Oxman and R. Oxman: p89
[9] Scheurer,
F. (2014). Materialising Complexity. Theories of the digital in architecture.
R. Oxman and R. Oxman: p89
[10] Scheurer,
F. (2014). Materialising Complexity. Theories of the digital in architecture.
R. Oxman and R. Oxman: p91
[11] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 69
[12] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 69
[13] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 71
[14] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 71-72
[15] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 72
[16] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 74
[17] Kolarevic,
B. (2003). Information Master Builders. Architecture in the digital age :
design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon p 74
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