Design Signals: The Role of Software Architecture and Paradigms in Design Thinking and Practice
Does the ontology of design software influence built form? Panagiotis Michalatos, lecturer in architectural technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal research engineer at Autodesk, Inc, here looks at how the move from drawing typologies to digital modelling since the mid 1990s has affected architectural aesthetics. He goes on to examine two more recent developments that may announce a further paradigm shift: granular tracking of design input, and data organisation practices in biomedics which, transferred to architecture, could allow for a more spatio temporal approach.