The Archaeology Of the Digital: Openings
This week’s reading touched on the history of architecture
and technology, and stated how the architectural sector continuously
experienced advancements in technology. Just like technology, the advancements
in software also came about, and had led to higher professional standards in
architecture design programs such as Rhino. Architects slowly became interested
in the core principles of parametric designs, which is basically the encoding
and the rules that connect the intended design and the result of the design.
Parametric design is also defined as a digital drawing board through the use of
algorithms, which in turn leads to the design of everyday objects, structures and
floor plans as stated by Ceborski. Having being able to use parametric design
in architecture is definitely a positive step towards creating what object/design
is on your mind. The possibilities of creating unique objects and shapes become
endless, allowing design in architecture sector to substantially grow.
In the reading it also tells us how digital architecture
cannot be separated with the advancements of how things are planned due to the
vast amounts of technology around us in society today. Digital architecture is
questioned to whether it can survive without the past design and also ignore
the ambitious ideals to create a different and a new world. On a personal
perspective, creating architecture from scratch is definitely not an easy job,
and more importantly, architecture is all around us and it becomes really hard
not to use past designs to gain inspirations to create new ideas.
References
Ceborski, J 2010, “Introduction: parametric design “in
rethinking the architecture
Picon, Antoine, “Introduction,” + People, Computers and
architecture: A historical Overview, “ in Digital Culture in Architecture: an
Introduction for the design Profession (2010): 7-57.
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