‘The open-ended characteristic of evolutionary computation is of
particular interest for architecture, as a design task can usually not be
comprehensively described as a problem, but rather as an opportunity for
creating novel possibilities within the framework of a given brief’. This
phrase really connected with me when reading as I found that architecture today
is still quite heavily influenced by structural properties, features and functions
of buildings in the past. I think that today these qualities of a building are
still being thoroughly researched with technology that is readily available to
us, and will always play a significant part in the process of designing and
constructing a building. Over time, evolutionary processes are significant in
improving the knowledge of design computation to help improve the cities of the
future. Things in other fields such as
natural morphogenesis will help to develop information in relating internal and
external forces of the surroundings to really expand the formation within
architecture. This sort of thing will also expand the knowledge of relationships
such as materialisation and formation. In the
Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault, Foucault expresses two
notions of the right and wrong ways to approach history. His view seems as
though certain discourses and continuities may turn up again in the future, but
much more advanced and relatable to that time in the future, based on what will
have been faced through evolution.
Quote: M Hemburg, A Menges and U O’Reilly, ‘Evolutionary
Computation in Architecture’, in Architectural design, vol 74, no 3, Wiley-Academy
(London), 2004, pp48-53.
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