On the Role of Geometry in Formal Design

Authors

• Toni Kotnik Aalto University

Keywords:

architectural knowledge, computational thinking, architectural design, mathesis, formal design methods

Abstract

In recent decades, new methodologies have emerged in architectural design that exploit the computer as a design tool. This has generated a varied set of digital skills and a new type of architectural knowledge. This means, architecture is taking part in an “intellectual revolution [that] is happening all around us, but few people are remarking on it. Computational thinking is influencing research in nearly all disciplines, both in the sciences and the humanities. It is changing the way we think.” i A good example of such reshaping of discipline-immanent thinking by means of computation is the paradigmatic shift in sciences like physics or biology caused by the introduction of the computer as the primary tool for simulating and modelling natural processes