Welcome! 
Lecture
“The Digital in Architecture”
- Does the digital have a history?
- Is automation the vision?
- What do architects dream of when thinking of the digital?
- Can architects inhabit the virtual?
- Can the digital inform physical architecture?
- Is it all about formal complexity?
- Does the digital go deeper than form?
Research and Projects mentioned in the lecture
Contour Crafting, Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, Center for Rapid Automated Fab Tech, USC, 2008
Ticket Hall, Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Foreign Office Architects, 2002
Virtual Stock Exchange, Asymptote Architects, New York, 2003
Sans titre, Objectile (Bernard Cache, Patrick Beaucé), 1998
Embryological House, Greg Lynn FORM, garden design by Jeff Kipnis, 2002
DRL 10th Anniversary Pavilion [C] Space, (Alan Dempsey, Alvin Huang) AA School of Architecture, 2008
One Main office space, dECOi (Mark Goulthorpe), Cambridge MA, 2015
Zaha Hadid Architects, Hungerburgbahn Innsbruck, 2007
Kunsthaus Graz, Spacelab (Peter Cook, Colin Fournier), 2003
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Frank Gehry, 1997
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, 2001
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Frank Gehry, Paris 2014
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Zaha Hadid Architects, Seoul, 2013
Seroussi Pavilion Model, Biothing, Alisa Andrasek, 2010
ICD / ITKE Research Pavilion 2013-14
Exercise
Intro to exercise session
Why Rhino?
Navigation and User Interface (UI)
Laptop + Mouse
Comments
Review contents for next week.
We recommend using Rhino 6 for Windows in the course. If you are a Mac user you can use any Virtual machine and virtualization software (Parallels, VMware, Bootcamp, VirtualBox… etc) to run windows in your laptop.
On the other hand, if you decide to use Rhino for Mac, for this semester everything is alright, but there are some differences in Grasshopper when displaying wires and in some components that can make at the beginning a bit more difficult to read data.
If you want to further develop your skills in programming with Grasshopper (Python, C#…) we will definitely encourage you to use only Rhino for Windows in the future.