It took me three posts to eventually get to the introduction. As you may have seen in the contents, I’m trained as an architectural designer who has immense interests in computation. A simpler description is that I’m an architect who’s into computer programming. Neither is absolutely true because I do not yet have a professional architect license and I only code in design software environments to expedite my workflow. I am however working on becoming better in both worlds, and this blog is meant to help me do just that, by tracking thoughts, storing ideas and tracing my wandering mind. Hopefully on the way I can help a few others and open myself up for people that may help me.
Due to the nature of architectural projects, most, if not all, of the portfolio section of this site shows school work. Projects in the professional practice are usually confidential and slow. It may take years to put on a few images documenting a project that I’ve poured hours in. So updates and findings of my routines will have to come up in small chunks in the blog sections.
I have posted two of my most recent writings on my blog and one more is on the way. But those could be all that there is. I’m a practitioner. Theories and intellectual reflections are definitely important but I’d rather blog about smaller things that are closer to designers' daily professional lives. That goes with my philosophy on design computation as well. I see most value in coding as an essential tool to aid designer achieve goals faster. Along the way the designer may pick up on the metaphysical meanings that computation may reveal, but it isn’t the driver of form. I’ll post a lot of tutorial type blogs and once in a long while I might share an epiphany or two. The higher level of intellectual knowledge comes from practice, and it takes long time to practice.
This is nothing new. I am heavily influenced by other designers who have taken on the role of spreading design computation to the architectural world. Some of them are far ahead in the programming track so much that they become developers of architectural software. There are much to learn from these people. The rising wave of information technology has yet to see its full impact on every industry. I will continue watching out for the tech world and tell you about a thing or two where the field of architecture may benefit from it. As I soon start preparing for licensure, I may leave a few remarks on the ARE in my blogs as well.
Read on and get in touch if you have thoughts or ideas to share.