An Evolutionary Architecture

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An Evolutionary Architecture
Architectural Association Publications | 1995-01 | ISBN: 1870890477 | 128 pages | PDF | 11 MB

An
Evolutionary Architecture can be considered, together perhaps with
Nicholas Negroponte's Architecture Machine books, as one of the most
important and inspiring references on the use of computation in
architecture and design.

John Frazer describes in his book groundbreaking work carried during
more than twenty years in diverse academic institutions, especially as
the head of Unit 11 at the Architectural Association, and in
collaboration with diverse architects and students.

Building on the foundations laid by Cybernetician Gordon Pask during
the sixties, the work explained in the book takes to its furthest, most
fascinating consequences the possibility of an autogenic,
self-organising, evolutionary architecture. Through its pages, and with
the examples of wonderful devices, Frazer questions fundamental
architectural concepts such as those of design, intention and purpose.

This book should be indispensable to anyone interested in the creative
use of computation in design. Besides becoming paradigmatic in the
relation of self-organisation, emergence and other essential concepts
to architecture, it essentially addresses the latent possibilities of
the computer as a generative, creative engine of design.

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