MTZ 529 - Digital Design Methods in Architeture

Course Objectives

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Course Description

Developments in the use of computers in architecture until today; The effect of information technologies on design; discussing the roles of the computer in contemporary architectural design practice; contemporary design process with an emphasis in architecture beginning from the second half of the 20th century; the concept of digital design; the rule based architectural design strategies, the rule based generative systems; algorithmic and parametric approaches, grammar systems as generative systems; shape grammars; fractals and patterns; evolutionary design, performative design; a consideration of the potentials created through the relationships of various design disciplines.