The problem of learning

This course will teach the concepts of generative design, specifically geared towards applications in architectural design. The goal of the course is to present both tools and concepts in a way that helps designers build intuition for how these tools work, how they can affect the design…

Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 3, 2017

Computational design in Grasshopper

Grasshopper is a visual programming environment which runs as a plugin on top of McNeel’s Rhino 3d modelling software. Grasshopper is now one of the most popular tools for computational design among architects and other designers. The platform’s popularity has been…

Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Jan 24, 2017

Designing measures

Although defining the design space is a crucial step of the generative design process, it is only half of the problem description that the optimization algorithm needs to navigate the design space and find optimal solutions. The other half is the specification of objective and constraint…

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 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 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

Mar 2, 2018

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

Jan 24, 2017

The design space

In order to design like nature, we need to consider how we can design a species. Thus, we will reframe the designer’s task from the design of a single physical object with a fixed form (the individual), to the design of systems which encode the full range of formal possibilities for a particular…

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Danil Nagy in Generative Design

Feb 3, 2017

Introduction to computational design

Now that we have covered some of the theoretical foundations of generative design, we will…

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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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