Flux was founded by three ex-Google engineers and an architect and was spun out of the semi-secret Google X Lab. It was a venture that attracted 8 mill US$ from stellar group of VCs. Their plans ...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/has-google-forgotten-how-it-became-google/
Can parametric play create variations like this? This is naturally occurring variations in vegetables that don’t reach supermarket shelves – beautifully documented by Uli Westphal in his Muta...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/mutations/
The annoying thing about discussing generative design with architects is their inability to disassociate design technology from geometry. Architecture has long been married to geometry. In the We...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/un-smart-geometry/
Future breakthroughs in CAD is more likely to come from the design tools for creating microscopic wet wear than from the crude tools known as CAD designed to combine metal and concrete into a...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/the-evolution-of-bio-cad/
This is the compilation of my previous blog posts on the end of CAD. As the era of using CAD as a tool to drive pre-computer paper based design process draws to a close, the type of CAD as we kno...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/the-future-of-cad/
The more I get into discussions about computational design, the more I realize that it is a waste of time. It is a waste of time, because computational design is not something that academics of a...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/the-computational-con/
Cells contain massive amounts of information. If we stretch the total DNA in our bodies it will be about 16 to 32 billion kilometers. Now, that is a lot of code. We cannot pack in more informatio...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/algorithmic-design/
Despite the significant interest we have in nature as a source of design inspiration, we do not adopt her design methods, except for genetic algorithm, developed by John Holland in 1975. This...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/nature-does-not-design/
I vaguely remember reading his book which you may remember from the early days of computer aided design – for its blinking led lights in the cover, which was fairly weird then for a book on arc...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/johnfrazer/
It is refreshing to see promising research and useful methods emerging from lesser known quarters. Despite decades of academic research the “layout problem” as it is called, is till today...
https://generativedesign.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/cracking-the-layout-problem/