Week 1

Lecture

“The Digital in Architecture”

  • Does the digital have a history?
  • Is automation the vision?
  • What do architects dream of when thinking of the digital?
  • Can architects inhabit the virtual?
  • Can the digital inform physical architecture?
  • Is it all about formal complexity?
  • Does the digital go deeper than form?

Projects mentioned in the lecture

  • Contour Crafting, Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, Center for Rapid Automated Fab Tech, USC, 2008
  • Ticket Hall, Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Foreign Office Architects, 2002
  • Virtual Stock Exchange, Asymptote Architects, New York, 2003
  • Sans titre, Objectile (Bernard Cache, Patrick BeaucĂ©), 1998
  • Embryological House, Greg Lynn FORM, garden design by Jeff Kipnis, 2002
  • DRL 10th Anniversary Pavilion [C] Space, (Alan Dempsey, Alvin Huang) AA School of Architecture, 2008
  • One Main office space, dECOi (Mark Goulthorpe), Cambridge MA, 2015
  • Zaha Hadid Architects, Hungerburgbahn Innsbruck, 2007
  • Kunsthaus Graz, Spacelab (Peter Cook, Colin Fournier), 2003
  • Guggenheim, Bilbao, Frank Gehry, 1997
  • Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, 2001
  • Fondation Louis Vuitton, Frank Gehry, Paris 2014
  • Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Zaha Hadid Architects, Seoul, 2013
  • Seroussi Pavilion Model, Biothing, Alisa Andrasek, 2010
  • ICD / ITKE Research Pavilion 2013-14

Exercise

Intro to Exercise session.

Rhino 2D Geometry.

Navigation and User Interface (Win & Mac).

Comments

Laptop + Mouse

Mouse

We recommend using Rhino for Windows in the course. If you are a Mac user you can use any Virtual machine and virtualization software (Parallels, VMware, Bootcamp, VirtualBox… etc) to run windows in your laptop.

On the other hand, if you decide to use Rhino for Mac, for this semester everything is alright, but there are some differences in Grasshopper when displaying wires and in some components that can make at the beginning a bit more difficult to read data.

If you want to further develop your skills in programming with Grasshopper (Python, C#…) we will definitely encourage you to use only Rhino for Windows in the future.