The paper begins with efforts to match patterns of spatial organization with patterns of human activity through graphs and electrical network analogies, which I argue generated an imagination of architectural form as agile and transformable by external organizational structures. It focuses on the divergent ways that these experiments defined the system boundaries between “structure” and “context” and on the contingency of these boundaries on specific mathematical and calculative techniques.

Aiming to activate the notion of “fit” as a multivalent and contested concept and to illuminate its ties to the techniques enlisted to fulfill it, this paper examines three germinal experiments from early research on architecture and computation. The notion of “adaptiveness” is theoretically and technically entangled with the concept of “fit.” That is, theories and practices of adaptive architecture variously propose processes through which a physical structure with embedded computing capabilities transforms to “fit” a changing context. While a few chapters are mostly dedicated to a historical analysis of how we got to experience a new technological reality in architecture and beyond, all chapters including the most forward looking, have in common their rigorous understanding of history as a pool of radical experiments, whether one speaks of the history of architecture, or of sociology, technology, and science.ĭisruptive Technologies: The Convergence of New Paradigms in Architecture is required reading for anybody student, practitioner, and educator who wants to do serious research in architecture and all disciplines dealing with the shaping of our environment, beyond the important but restricted domain of computational architectural design.Īdditional multimedia content via app: download the SN More Media app for free, scan a link with play button and access to the Additional Contents directly on your smartphone or tablet. Through a series of highly speculative contributions by both leading and highly acclaimed practitioners and theorists, this book gives a new comprehensive overview of architectures’ most recent practical and theoretical developments.

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