Introduction
Looking at architecture through the lens of currently emerging, advanced architectural design tools, strategies and techniques in the 21st century are as questionable as looking through the lens of a 2-dimensional Rapidograph drawing. Architecture is neither determined by complex geometries digitally established through scripting, nor by the one dimensional perception through a hard line drawing. The role of architecture is currently being challenged through almost overwhelming advanced digital techniques merged with traditional strategies in order to find its new identity within a post-mechanical towards a biological computing age of construction. We are seemingly fooled by the understanding that we do conquer the boundaries of geometry and form production. The paper discusses the connection point of advanced digital architecture as tool to complement and bring forward professionally and culturally established parameters, such as material tectonics, perception or architectural pattern.
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Werner, L.C. (2011). Codes in the Clouds Observing New Design Strategies. In: Gengnagel, C., Kilian, A., Palz, N., Scheurer, F. (eds) Computational Design Modelling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23435-4_8
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