a+u 595 - 20:04 Computational Discourses

This instalment of the magazine examines the application of computational design and digital fabrication across a spectrum of materials and scales, from a free-form high-rise exoskeleton by Zaha Hadid Architects or biomimetic wearables by Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter Group at MIT, to the printed structure of a nonstandard brick, developed by Sabin Lab at Cornell University. With a selection of fourteen projects by designers and architects working in crossdisciplinary ways, it explores what can be achieved by "thinking digitally" and raises questions about the relationship between natural systems, digital technology, and the shaping of the material environment.