Material Formations

Catalog description

Architectural design involves the incorporation of numerous technical and creative considerations that must be weighted and synthesized, and ultimately embodied in an architectural work’s material outcome. The effectiveness of this endeavor is tightly related to a design’s alignment with design-engineering, material and production constraints and opportunities. The building industry is increasingly adopting automated methods both in design and engineering software, and robotic means of fabrication and construction to decrease material, environmental and time costs. The discipline of architecture must not only keep apace with these developments, but also develop a creative and critical approach to the increasingly automated means by which buildings are designed and realized, re-casting it as an opportunity to engage in design with greater degrees of holistic thinking, while engaging in material and production decisions.