Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Garrett Herbst
Within architecture there has been an ongoing shift in the architectural process. Each piece of new software allows for a higher level of simulation and calculation within architectural design, allowing for faster output of drawings and increasingly dynamic and complete building analysis. What seems to have taken months or years through analog methods are being completed in days or weeks digitally. But as with all technology it can create users who are compliant, relying solely on technology for its intended purpose and nothing more. To remain relevant in the contemporary discussion, architects have an ethical imperative, not to acquiesce their design process, but instead to ask how to push the utilization of these tools beyond their basic uses. Parametric modeling, environmental analysis, computational scripting; these all have the potential to be powerful pens in a skillful hand, manifesting ideas onto paper in ways the minds of the past could only imagine.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.2018.58
Volume Editors
Ángela García de Paredes, Iñaqui Carnicero & Julio Salcedo-Fernandez
ISBN
978-1-944214-18-0
