Emergent Technologies And Design: Towards A Biological Paradigm For Architecture

By Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel

Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systems Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural struct...

Emergent Technologies And Design: Towards A Biological Paradigm For Architecture

By Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel

Michael Hensel, Achim Menges & Michael Weinstock. Includes Bibliographical References.

Techniques And Technologies In Morphogenetic Design

By Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel, Michael Hensel; Achim Menges; Michael Weinstock

This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self-organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogeneti...

Versatility And Vicissitude: Performance In Morpho-Ecological Design

By Achim Menges, Michael Hensel

Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space In Architecture

By Achim Menges, Michael Hensel, Christopher Hight, Carpo, Mario

The Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a definition of space that is heterogeneous (an obj...

Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space In Architecture

By Achim Menges, Michael Hensel, Christopher Hight, Carpo, Mario

The Space Reader Provides A Highly Pertinent And Contemporary Understanding Of Space For A New Generation Of Students And Architects. It Espouses A Definition Of Space That Is Heterogeneous (an Obj...

Computational Design Thinking: Computation Design Thinking

By Achim Menges, Sean Ahlquist

The Current Transition From Computer Aided Design (cad) To Computational Design In Architecture Represents A Profound Shift In Design Thinking And Methods. Representation Is Being Replaced By Simul...

Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies

By Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel

emergence, Or Evolutionary Optimisation, Is An Important New Concept That In Recent Years Has Been Applied To Artificial Intelligence, Information Theory, Digital Technology, Economics, Climate Stu...

Material Synthesis: Fusing The Physical And The Computational

By Achim Menges, ACHIM MENGES, Achim Menges

A new understanding of the material in architecture is fast emerging. Designers are no longer conceiving of the digital realm as separate from the physical world. Instead computation is being regar...

Morpho-Ecologies: Towards Heterogeneous Space In Architecture Design

By Achim Menges, Michael Hensel, Architectural Association (Great Britain)

This Volume Introduces A Design Approach Developed By Michael Hensel And Achim Menges. Based On A Synthesis Of The Processes Underlying Morphogenesis And Ecological Dynamics, This Approach Challeng...