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In a lab setting, this course will explore the generative possibilities offered by advanced digital environments to develop new modes of architectural strategy, and representation. Advances in technologies have provided us with new production possibilities such as data-driven production, CNC, 3D printers, etc. which are in turn leading to non-standard architectural formulations that resemble genetic principles (variation, mutation, hybridization). The work focuses on digital tools that enable the development of complex surfaces, procedural and parametric forms. These techniques are used to reframe the relationship of architecture to advanced geometry and away from Cartesian models of organization. We will discuss and explore advances in software technology that are bridging the gap between the virtual design model and the engineered final product.

School of Architecture - Florida International University

TA: Hector Ceballos