Artificial Architecture

Artificial Architecture is the title of a research area located at The Intersection of the fields of Architectural Design and Artificial Intelligence. It can be considered a subfield of the broad area of Design computing, more specifically oriented to Artificial Intelligence, Computational creativity and Knowledge engineering. The main objectives of this research endeavour are:

  • Development of algorithms to partially simplify or automate architectural design and urban planning tasks.
  • Definition of computable models of architectural knowledge, as general and flexible as possible.
  • Automatic generation of variations on architectural features, structures and objects.

The term has been popularized by the Department Of Artificial Architecture (Institute of Artificial Art Amsterdam), where remarkable efforts in this area has been made employing visual grammars to generate random specifications of 3-dimensional objects and structures.

The expression Artificial Architecture was theoretically proposed and thoroughly used in the title and the content of a PhD Thesis developed at Polytechnical University of Madrid (Spain): Arquitectura Artificial o Manierismo por Computadora (Artificial Architecture or Computer Aided Mannerism).

Alternatively, another people working in similar subjects use analogous terms, instead of Artificial Architecture, such as Algorithmic Architecture, Algorithmic Design, and so on.

See also

  • Algorithmic Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial life
  • Building Information Modeling
  • CAD (Computer-Aided Design)
  • CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design)
  • Computational creativity
  • Design computing
  • Digital morphogenesis
  • GenerativeComponents
  • Knowledge engineering

References

  • F. Javier Fernández Herrero (2002), Arquitectura artificial o manierismo por computadora, ISBN 8460976513, 9788460976516
  • F. Javier Fernández Herrero (2006), Arquitectura artificial o manierismo por computadora, ISBN 1847282687, 9781847282682
  • F. Javier Fernández Herrero (2006), Artificial Architecture or Computer Aided Mannerism, movie. (Digital Video Disc)
  • Kostas Terzidis (2009), Algorithmic Architecture, ISBN 0750667257