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Avery hall, a tall red-brick building with copper cornice, the new home of the Master of Science in Computational Design Practices program
Mapping The Future

Columbia GSAPP launches Master of Science in Computational Design Practices program

A digitized heatmap created for ACADIA 2021
Critical Computation

ACADIA 2021 will address the entanglements of architectural technology, power, and society

a public square generated by Delve in London
Delve in Deep

Sidewalk Labs launches Delve, a generative design tool for optimized urban development

A Matter Design-made walking concrete system
Performance Matters

Matter Design looks to the past to design a more animated architecture

all-white interior with images and text on the wall, part of Artificial Intelligence & Architecture
French Facsimile

Artificial Intelligence & Architecture at Paris’s Pavillon de l’Arsenal goes digital

A procedurally generated neighborhood drawing
Idea Generator

Sidewalk Labs is using machine learning to make neighborhood design smoother

A top down view of colorful metal bands forming columns and circular open roofs, designed by SOFTlab
Highly Evolved

SOFTlab used complex computation to realize a colorful Philly installation

An undulating green pavilion in a public square at a university, designed by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY
Windswept

MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY uses computational design to realize a breezy Texas pavilion

Aerial image of a twisting glass tower, the Totzeret Haaretz
Not your father's Garden City

Ron Arad Architect’s Totzeret Haaretz contorts over Tel Aviv with glass and sintered stone

Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II

A pavilion with a clear skin in a field of flowers, for the BUGA horticulture show
Carbon-up Fibers

Researchers and robots team up to build innovative pavilion in a German garden

Nine concrete columns are lit below in front of a mountain in a nighttime scene thanks to the team from ETH Zurich
Choreographed Columns

Researchers and students at ETH Zurich print complex columns for dance festival

An upward shot of an interlocking, biomorphic fiber structure presented at Exhibit Columbus
Columbus Composites

Exhibit Columbus’s inaugural fellow program will go high-tech

Photo of blue and white pavilion with pillars curving out into spheres
Dream Space

MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY creates cloud-like pavilion in Charlotte

6 elements in the evolution of a floor plan—starting with disparate gray circles and eventually winding up in a coherent, multicolored map
Genetic Mutation

Could buildings be evolved instead of designed?

3D rendering of a two-story, flat-roofed home.
Playing House

Startup wants to automate the home design process

Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II

Photo of Quadrilinear sculpture
Heavy Metal

This 17-ton steel sculpture soars thanks to computational structural modeling

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