Formative Pathways: Changing Systems of Design - From Heuristics to Applications, Pedagogies, and Processes

Abstract

This special issue of International Journal of Architecture Computing (IJAC)is entitled Formative Pathways and explores the changing face of the profession and the academy as a means to capture the influence of computational methods on architecture and design.The selected papers describe the integration of those approaches into pedagogies and practices and demonstrate their transformative and disruptive effect on the norms and traditions of design, discourse, design education, and practices, and how this knowledge exchange continues to shape today’s theory and practice of architecture.The ideas discussed by the authors are characterized by procedures that expand beyond the techniques of crafting things to include broader design knowledge of heuristics, applications, pedagogies, and their often simultaneous influence on design processes and practices in the academic and professional realms.