Generative design: a paradigm for design research

Jon McCormack, Alan Dorin, Troy Innocent
Centre for Electronic Media Art
Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia

Generative design offers new modes of aesthetic experience based on the incorporation of system dynamics into the production of artifact and experience. In this paper, we review a number of processes that can be explored by designers and suggest how design as a discipline can benefit from this research. These processes include self-organization, swarm systems and ant colonies, evolution, and generative grammars. We give example applications of these processes to creativity and design.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/genDesignFG04.pdf

Noam Chomsky

Serero Architects : Pierre-Antoine Bonamour, Bastien Casasoprana, Jonas Fernandez, Gabriela Fernandez, David Serero, Fabrice Zaini.

NEW SCHOOL OF MUSIC OF PARIS : Paris / France

http://www.serero.com/index_fr.htm

behavioral urbanism: urban density scenario B: yiota goutsou, diego perez, robert stuart-smith

Diego Perez and Robert Stuart-Smith have developed 3d cellular automata algorithms that operate in similar ways to wolfram's in their masters thesis project "behavioral space" at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AADRL) in collaboration with yiota goutsou. The project may be found at aadrl's site or in kokkugia's research section

http://www.kokkugia.com/

“Regardless of their complexity, the tasks and decisions involved [in designing a building] can be formalized as an algorithm. As such, algorithms provide a framework for articulating and defining both input data and procedures. This formalization can promote structure and coherency, while systemically maintaining full traceability of all input data.” – in: “Algorithms in Architecture – Five Approaches” (Michael Hansmeyer)

http://fastforeword.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/michael-hansmeyer/

Algorithms in Architecture

Michael Hansmeyer

http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/

http://www.mh-portfolio.com/indexl.html

Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Generating Networks

Cities are places where information and material are integrated. This integration takes place on top of a changing infrastructure that is sometimes designed and sometimes organic. We can think of this infrastructure as a network, or, more accurately, as a set of overlapping networks, each with different distance measures between nodes.

http://home.fa.utl.pt/~jduarte/dcc08_workshop/notes/2008_Proceedings_Workshop_1_DCC08.pdf