- Title
- Ethics and the auto-generative design process
- Creator
- Ostwald, Michael J.
- Relation
- Building Research and Information Vol. 38, Issue 4, p. 390-400
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2010.481172
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- In the last decade, the rise of sophisticated software tools has enabled a growing number of designers to experiment with new processes for the creation of architectural form. Several of these processes, which are loosely grouped under the rubric ‘auto-generative’, rely on the computer to evolve extraordinary biomorphic or topographic forms. In the years since the rise of this approach, prominent members of the architectural community have embraced the computer-generated buildings produced in this way and praised them as being the products of an innately ethical or moral design process. This supposition is tested through a critical textual analysis of several high-profile architects' statements and is focused exclusively on accounts of the design process and not on the buildings that are produced in this way. A three-part conceptual framework is developed for the ethical analysis of a creative or constructive process. Evidence is used selectively to interrogate the claims made about this movement from a moral or an ethical standpoint.
- Subject
- computer-generated design; design philosophy; design process; digital architecture; ethics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/928214
- Identifier
- uon:10362
- Identifier
- ISSN:0961-3218
- Rights
- This is an electronic version of an article published in Building Research and Information Vol. 38, Issue 4, p. 390-400. Building Research and Information is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0961-3218&volume=38&issue=4&spage=390
- Language
- eng
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