Computational Creativity

The transition of architectural tools from traditional to modern computational has focused on efficiency and productivity. This is so as many of the computational tools used by architects have their legacy in industrial disciplines such as automobile and manufacturing. CATIA, for example, a software used by Frank Gehry and his team to achieve complex designs, was initially developed for the aeronautical industry. As a result of being inherited from these fields, the values and standards of these other disciplines have discretely trickled into architecture. Consequently, notions of optimization, standardization, and efficiency, all qualities of vertical thinking, or industrial era reasoning, are inevitably prioritized in these tools over lateral thinking qualities like inaccuracies, uncertainty, and accidents, qualities often associated with artistic practices.