Algorithmic Tectonics is a course on creative computing in architecture and design. By learning to create their own computational design artifacts (such as experimental software, responsive objects and robotic fabrication applications) participants explore computation as a territory for speculative, critical and poetic thinking about design (rather than as a mere instrument of production or representation).
Creating an environment where students write their own software, the course seeks to challenge conventional approaches to computation in architecture and to expand the design imagination.
The chief objective of the class is to learn to think of software as a medium for original designing, visualizing, and making. Its second objective is to expose students to an expanding landscape of computational design practices and to instill a sensibility for their appreciation and criticism.
