Week 1

To design is to put the thoughts of an individual or group onto paper for creating purposes; that was what I believed to be true. The introductory lecture of computational design theory says otherwise and I strongly agree. I have disregarded the importance of existing theories from the past decades that have contributed in the designing process of architectures from the previous decades until today and perhaps will also be kept true in the future depending on the impact of the digital revolution. After reading Architecture or Revolution by Le Corbusier and Computation or Revolution by Philippe Morell; many questions have popped up in my head. Specialization is bad? Man is not taking full advantage of the ridiculous development rate of technology? Artificial Intelligence? Through group discussion and some self-contemplating I came to believe that; Le Corbusier intends to portray that laborers specializing in one field are only responsible for a small part of their products and only sees their products when they are finished. This also made me think that studying computational design is beneficial as we affiliate ourselves with different areas inside and outside the field of architecture. Technology is advancing very quickly and I don’t know if we are prepared for it. It’s not that we are not taking advantage of it; it is that there are too many ethical and economic issues if mankind does take this big leap. We are the designers and automation are the workers; I still don’t know if it is correct for automation to take up both these roles.