Introducing the electronic brain -- Cultures of simulation -- "Special men" and universal machines -- How do simulations know? -- Towards a pluralistic formalism -- Designers in dialog -- Human, machine, and environment
Summary
Designers employ a variety of tools and techniques for speculating about buildings before they are built. In their simplest form, these are personal thought experiments. However, embracing advanced computer simulations means engaging a network of specialized people and powerful machines. In this book, Yanni Alexander Loukissas demonstrates that new tools have profound implications for the social distribution of design work; computer simulations are technologies for collective imagination. Organized around the accounts of professional designers engaged in a high-stakes competition to redefine t
