Lecture 3 Arch 200c 2011 Fall
Course	Arch 200c
Date	2011/09/20
Learning Objectives
Agenda	Lecture 3 A Brief History of CAD Cultures of Digital Design What Does CAD Want? Introduction of Topic Readings / Reading Mavens
Uses Tool(s)

Lecture 3

Design tools have evolved significantly since the technologies of orthographic projection were developed, bringing about new modes of representation and radically transforming design practice. The digital tools commonly employed by architects have simultaneously become more demanding and more powerful, sparking new modes of practice and challenging the very foundations of our discipline.

Brief History of CAD

Generation One

Generation Two

Generation Three

Cultures of Digital Design

What does CAD want?

Readings

• Antoine Picon, Digital Culture in Architecture (Boston, MA: Birkhaeuser, 2010), Introduction
• Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents (London, England: The MIT Press, 2009).
• Helmut Pottmann et al., Architectural Geometry, ed. Daril Bentley (Exton, Pa: Bentley Institute Press, 2007).
• William Mitchell and Malcolm McCullough, Digital Design Media, 2nd ed. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995).
• Antoine Picon, Digital Culture in Architecture (Boston, MA: Birkhaeuser, 2010), Chapter 1

Reading Mavens

• Yuxing Chen
• Kelly Wilson
• Larkin Brogan