| dc.description.abstract | Design Transactions asks what the future of building
culture will be. It asks how new, shared computational
platforms are changing our disciplines, examining how
the digitisation of tools affects the way architecture is
conceived designed and made. Questions arise as we
enter a new era of advanced modelling, informed by
new concepts of Big Data computing, cloud-based
collaboration and steered robotic fabrication: What might
collaboration look like in the future? How can knowledge
across the design change be interfaced and fed back
for a more informed and materially-sensitive practice?
What is the future for automation in architecture?
Today, computational design is ubiquitous in building
practice; the tools of design, analysis, specification and
manufacture are now primarily digital. While tools vary
in sophistication and programmability, they share
a common digital foundation. This makes them
fundamentally open to interfacing, which, in turn,
has led to the conception of a digital chain via which
information is communicated, connected and extended
across industry partnerships. This highly interdisciplinary
vision has framed building practice for the last 15 years
(Kolarevic, 2003). | |
