This paper provides an overview of the design of biomimetic building skins. Many types of
smart and responsive building envelopes have been developed, but their improvement to …

Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the
design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto …

With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide
array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The …

Emergence-the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties
'emerge'from within complex systems Traditional architecture starts from the premise that …

In recent decades, new methodologies have emerged in architectural design that exploit the
computer as a design tool. This has generated a varied set of digital skills and a new type of …

Abstract Design computation has profound impact on architectural design methods. This
paper explains how computational design enables the development of biomimetic design …

This paper introduces and elaborates a specific approach to architectural design entitled
'performance-oriented architecture'based on a redefinition of the concept of 'performance'in …

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology
which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural …

A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture Toward a Living
Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture …

This paper discusses the approach of biomimetic design in architecture applied to the theme
of growth in biology by taking two exemplary research projects at the intersection of arts and …