Design Ecosystems: Customising the Architectural Design Environment with Software Plug-ins

As a preface to this section dedicated to the rise of plug‐ins, Daniel Davis and Guest‐Editor Brady Peters describe the shift in architectural culture that has seen the adoption of scripting interfaces ‐ once the preserve of CAD specialists ‐ spread to designers using code to create geometry and fin...

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Published in:Architectural design Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 124 - 131
Main Authors: Davis, Daniel, Peters, Brady
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.03.2013
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:
'assigned-attribute-based' data structures
'geometric-content-based' data exchange
application programming interface (API)
Arduino microcontroller platform
Autodesk® Ecotect® environmental analysis package
bazaar
Bentley Systems' MicroStation v8
building information modelling (BIM)
Cathedrals
Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) and Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL)
Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) and Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), Dermoid, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Computer programs
computer-aided design (CAD) software
Copenhagen
Culture
Customizing
David Rutten
Dermoid
Doug McIlroy
drunk with code
Ecosystems
Editors
Edwin Catmull
End users
Eric Raymond
Firefly
Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners, Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, Hong Kong
Foster + Partners, West Kowloon Canopy Masterplan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Galapagos
GECO
Hong Kong
Internet
Kai Tak Cruise Terminal
Kangaroo
Kowloon
Landscapes
Macintosh Transparency
Mark Burry
Melbourne
Pachyderm Acoustical Simulation
plug-ins
Preserves
project lifecycle management (PLM)
Rhinoceros
RMIT University
RMIT University, Melbourne
Robert McNeel & Associates' Grasshopper
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Sherry Turkle
single self-contained application
Unix philosophy of programming
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
WeaverBird
West Kowloon Canopy Masterplan
ISSN:0003-8504, 1554-2769
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Summary:As a preface to this section dedicated to the rise of plug‐ins, Daniel Davis and Guest‐Editor Brady Peters describe the shift in architectural culture that has seen the adoption of scripting interfaces ‐ once the preserve of CAD specialists ‐ spread to designers using code to create geometry and find form. They explain how this defines an entirely new landscape in which ‘cathedrals’ (monolithic applications) are challenged by ‘bazaars’ (generative‐modelling editors) populated by animal‐named plug‐ins, where architects become the formulators rather than just the end users of programs.
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ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.1567