ORIGINALS OF THE CONTEMPORARY GENERATIVE FORMS: TYPE OR INDIVIDUALITY IN ARCHITECTURE 

Ada Kwiatkowska

Abstract  

Debate about the shape and the meaning of architectural form, which took place at the beginning of the 20th. Century, is still actual nowadays. This dispute expresses best the dilemma, relating to the question of what decides about the quality of the architectural form: type or individuality? Contemporary generative forms, taking advantage of the information potential of the architectural software's language, are the expressions of seeking for the elaboration of prototypical solutions, and searching for their formal uniqueness as well. Paper aims to define a type in architecture from one side (making of form), and from the other - to express its individuality (finding of form). Genetic language and generative rules of forms' creation connected with analysis of methods of their transformation are the subject of the research. The following types of generative forms are distinguished: conversional, animated, metamorphic, algorithmic and transgenic.

Article:

Kwiatkowska, Ada (2019). Originals of the contemporary generative forms: type or individuality in architecture, Defining the architectural space: Tradition and modernity in architecture, Cracow Universtiy of Technology 2019, vol.5, pp. 35-45

(drawings by Ada Kwiatkowska)

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