Computational Design Thinking (Paperback)

Foreword

Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist

Introduction

Computational Design Thinking

Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges

Formation and Transformation

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the Theory of Transformations, Or the Comparison of Related Forms

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Variational Evolution

Ernst Mayr

The Meaning of General System Theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Systems Generating Systems

Christopher Alexander

The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics

Gordon Pask

Towards a Humanism Through Machines

Nicholas Negroponte

A New Agenda for Computer-Aided Design

William J Mitchell

Algorithmic Form

Kostas Terzidis

Architecture and Practical Design Computation

Mark Burry

An Introduction to Creative Evolutionary Systems

Peter J Bentley and David W Corne

Constrained Generating Procedures

John H Holland

Real Virtuality

Manuel DeLanda

A Natural Model for Architecture

John Frazer

Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence

Michael Weinstock

Philosophy of Mathematics for Computational Design:

Spatial Intuition Versus Logic

Jane Burry

Associative Design: From Type to Population

Peter Trummer

Integral Formation and Materialisation:

Computational Form and Material Gestalt

Achim Menges

The Computational Fallacy

Sanford Kwinter

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Index