Corey RobinsonDigital Fabrication

Reading Response 3

After reading both of the selected texts, Atlas of Novel Tectonics and Calculus-Based Form: An Inter-view with Greg Lynn I have drawn a few conclusions. Both of these articles of excerpts deal with the design of architectural elements in aggregated formal implications and computer aided formal impli-cations. I found both selections intriguing and insightful. I personally agree with Greg Lynn’s opinions. I think that with computer aided design, while losing some of the old trade, there is so much to gain through formal analysis and component design. I �nd that programs such as Rhino and 3D Max are great for exploring possibilities in form and doing what wouldn’t be possible on just a piece of paper with a pencil. I feel that when you put a calculation behind a design it gives it purpose. It gives the project a meaning. There is operations that directly inform what your project is doing or conveying. Instead of trying to portray an idea, ones ideas can be directly projected into the architecture. In the Atlas of Novel Tectonics reading I couldn’t �nd much to relate to. I found it very brief in its descriptions. I understand the concept of �neness and having a system that works together on not just one scale but on multiple scales however I felt the reading had a tough time displaying this. I think that the ideas written in both passages both run up the same alley. I feel that is both of these idea were to converge then the evolution of the future of digital design would blossom.