This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES—The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on ...novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers encounter new ideas about understanding material intelligence in architecture.
Can AI help us to understand how the mind works, and how architects think? Neil Leach, Professor at Florida International University, points out that, although human intelligence and artificial ...intelligence are very different things, analogies can be drawn. AI, he argues, can potentially offer us insights into how the mind works, and so too into how architects are trained to think.
Many discussions about AI seem to end up addessing the question of creativity. Can computers be considered creative? Or is it impossible for any entity to be considered creative if it does not ...possess consciousness? Are human beings so creative, for that matter? Indeed, what exactly is creativity itself? Might AI even offer us some insights into the actual nature of creativity? This paper explores what we can perhaps begin to understand about the nature of creativity in the mirror of AI, with a particular reference to the now famous Go match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol. It argues that one particular famous move in that match sheds some light on some of the crucial questions regarding creativity. It goes on to ask the provocative question, as to whether creativity even exists, or whether it is simply a myth that can now be debunked, thanks to our insights from the world of AI.
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES-The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on ...novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers will encounter new ideas about understanding intelligence in architecture.
3D Printing in Space Leach, Neil
Architectural design,
11/2014, Letnik:
84, Številka:
6
Journal Article
The cost of transporting raw materials into Space is prohibitive ‐ potentially US$2 million for a single brick to be shipped to the Moon. This means that the future of extraterrestrial construction ...rests on the development of technologies that are able to employ in‐situ materials, such as lunar dust. Guest‐Editor Neil Leach is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow, collaborating with colleagues from the University of Southern California (USC) on a research project developing a robotic fabrication technology capable of printing structures on the Moon and Mars. Here he describes the inroads that NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) consortia are independently making into 3D‐printed fabrication technologies.
What exactly is the Discrete? A style, or rather a design/ fabrication method? And how does it relate to the continuous? Architectural educator and writer Neil Leach – who currently teaches at ...Shanghai's Tongji University, Miami's Florida International University School of Architecture, and the European Graduate School – challenges deficiencies and inconsistencies in its definition, and questions the very notion of digital materials.
Computational drafting allows architects to zoom in and out of their creations‐in‐progress as never before. However, when it comes to digital fabrication processes, changes in scale can have ...insurmountable implications in terms of structural stability and load bearing – as Guest‐Editor Neil Leach explains here. Therefore, he argues, rather than dreaming of scaling up 3D printing to the dimension of buildings and cities, architects do better to focus their enthusiasm for this new technology on smaller‐scale areas of their practice.
What is 3D‐Printed Body Architecture? Leach, Neil
Architectural design,
November/December 2017, 2017-11-00, 20171101, Letnik:
87, Številka:
6
Journal Article
The Culture of the Copy Leach, Neil
Architectural design,
September/October 2016, Letnik:
86, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Is copying necessarily a bad thing? Theorists from Walter Benjamin to Richard Dawkins, and from Judith Butler to Homi Bhabha, have suggested not. Drawing on their work, Neil Leach, Professor of ...Digital Design at the European Graduate School and Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, challenges the notion of authenticity and argues that the entire history of human culture is built on a constant process of replication.
