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COMPLEX MORPHOLOGIES

By Roland Snooks | Published 2010-02-03 | Posted in seminar

Roland Snooks directed the algorithmic design seminar, Complex Morphologies, in Fall in conjunction with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter. The seminar explored methodologies that engage complex and non-linear systems to generate emergent formations. Recursive and self-organizing techniques were developed that are capable of generating complex forms of order. In addition to developing algorithmic techniques the seminar operated as [...]

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Theorizing the Parametric

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-01-21 | Posted in seminar

  If there were ever a theorist of the parametric it is surely the French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze. While he himself did not write about parametric theory, it is clear that his work raises a number of provocative questions, and suggests new ways of theorizing the subject. This semester a theory course is being offered, [...]

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parametric design_final reviews @ usc 091215

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2010-01-15 | Posted in Review, seminar

Continuing todays review marathon, the students of David Gerber’s and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter’s Parametric Design I seminar presented their final work today at USC. The seminar was structured in two parts. The first part was dedicated to Case Studies. The students were asked to research, analyze and develop a parametric design strategy for building CATIA models [...]

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