dc.contributor.advisor | Wellington Reiter. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Luken, Noah Paul, 1975- | en_US |
dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-12T19:24:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-01-12T19:24:16Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2003 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68399 | |
dc.description | Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Compositional rules have been proposed as the generating mechanisms of form in architectural treatises since Vitruvius. Recently, computational approaches to architecture have pursued a language for rulebuilding rather than the rules themselves. However, architects have resisted adopting computation as a means of expression, presumably because of the embedded culture of two-dimensional representations. A recent change in the construction industry from manual to automated fabrication techniques suggests a parallel shift in architectural representation from drawings to procedural descriptions of design. As such, computation can help architects to relate creative design to a process of manufacturing and assembly. In order to accommodate this, it is necessary to develop a new vocabulary for describing compositional rules which relies on an understanding of both design process and products as computational objects. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Noah Paul Luken. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 49, [1] leaves | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by
copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but
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dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
dc.subject | Architecture. | en_US |
dc.title | Playing on the tracks | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | M.Arch. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture | |
dc.identifier.oclc | 53685209 | en_US |