Bit by Brick: Computing Architectural Design

Bit by Brick: Computing Architectural Design contains innovative ideas that include a computer-based design system for passing an architectural Turing test, representing architectural entities as virtual computers, representing architectural design as the interaction of a network of computers, using the synthesizing operations of forms and spaces in architecture as the basis for an architectural programming language, representing an algorithmic design process as an application-specific integrated circuit for hardware implementation, using the concept of a locus to generate spatial forms in architecture, using effectors and sensors to optimize architectural forms, making architectural forms dynamically adaptive using effectors, suggesting a liminal space between architectural forms in which effectors can operate, using intensional definitions to drive the generation of architectural forms deriving from morphogenesis in developmental biology, using the clustering of performance criteria to generate spatial relationships in an architectural design, processing objective sensory information used to record architecture using a neuronal transformation to make the sensory data more subjective, and exploring the abstract space of conjectural intersections of seemingly exclusive entities have all been introduced and described.