Routing with graphs

A critical aspect of architectural design is understanding the way people move through and experience a space. Because such…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 12, 2018

Behavioral systems

This article describes how we can use behavioral algorithms and agent-based models to further abstract the relationship…

Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Mar 19, 2017

Design optimization

Once we have defined our design space and established some metrics to evaluate it, we are ready to enlist the help of an optimization algorithm to explore the design space and find a variety of high-performing designs. As you may recall from a previous article, any optimization problem can be…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 26, 2017

View analysis with Isovist

The methods of structural and environmental analysis described in the previous two sections aim to quantify a…

Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 26, 2017

Solar analysis in Grasshopper

A large portion of a building’s performance has to do with how it behaves in relation to its environment…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 19, 2017

Structural analysis with Karamba

As we discussed previously, metrics are a crucial aspect of the generative design framework because…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 12, 2017

Recursive systems

In computer science, ‘recursion’ refers to a strategy where the solution to a problem can be solved using solutions to smaller…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 12, 2017

Control strategies

As discussed previously, one of the most critical aspects of the generative design workflow is the parameterization of the…

Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 12, 2017

Working with geometry in Python

The core Python language is very limited in functionality, being restricted to the basic algebra, flow…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 4, 2017

Fundamentals of Python — Functions and Objects

So far, we have seen how we can use variables in Python to store different kinds of data, and how we can use ‘flow control’ structures such as conditionals and loops to change the order or the way in which lines of code get executed. With only…

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Generative Design

Catalog of lecture notes, technical tutorials, and other content from an advanced computational design course at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP)

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