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“If you are comfortable with what you are doing, then your not doing anything interesting ” -Jeffery Kipnis-

Digital vs Analog

Creating a new dialog.
Architecture is plagued by an ever increasing complexity of process.  New digital techniques have allowed architects to create entirely new forms with exceedingly complex computational techniques.  These forms are no longer dictated by intent but rather, generative processes.  Process in itself does not constitute a new architectural language, but rather new introduces new methods of informing design intent.

Computational processes have created a mentality of ‘everything is on the table’,  relinquishing control and intent to the process.  It is the role of the architect to control, and insert intention back into the design process.  The conversation between the digital(computational generation) and the analog(process of making) is where architects can regain or reinsert intent.

This studio with focus on new techniques, both digital and analog to recreate the classic notion of design intent.  Through iteration and the usage of new computational techniques the students will explore the realm between the digital and the analog.  Through this process, students will discover methods of informing their design, allowing both the digital and the analog to serve as catalysts within the design process.

Through iteration students will discover ways to inform their design intent as well as the computational processes they use.  Something new will emerge, informed by the conversation between the digital and the analog.  This studio will reveal computational tools and thinking as an informative process, rather than a generative one.

The studio will begin with a period of discovery, revealing new forms either through a digital or analog methods.  Through a process of iteration the students will develop methods of informing their design, moving from computational processes to methods of making.  This will be done with the usage of new digital fabrication and rapid prototyping techniques.

The studio will produce a series of installations, illustrating the results of this new type of digital versus analog process.