This thesis assumes the architectural design process as a systematic study,
in which knowledge is stored, organized and operated on by computational
methods. From this perspective, the study explores the efforts for
systemizing the architectural design process. Firstly, the focus is on the early
approaches of systemizing design in the Design Methods Movement. The
thesis identifies and evaluates the use of a number of critical concepts in this
movement and in recent architecture practice, in order to see the
development and transformation of design methods in terms of computing
knowledge in a systematic way.
The thesis evaluates the features that make design systematic within the
Design Methods Movement and inquires whether such features like
complexity, hierarchy, feedback loops and selection are influential in recent
computational design methods of architecture. The thesis looks into two
generative design methods, namely evolutionary design and shape
grammars, which have been studied by designers since the 1960s, the start
of the Design Methods Movement. These two methods exemplify current
systematic approaches to design and according to the thesis these are the
instances of how recent architecture employs the features discussed as
characteristic in the Design Methods Movement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609577/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 June 2008 |
| Creators | Ergun, Eser |
| Contributors | Ozkar, Mine |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.Arch. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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