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Aalborg University, Fall semester 2010: I was coordinating the Master’s subject “Formfindings” when I introduced programming using the “parametric wall”. Through a single consistent system of elements and interrelations, designers could rapidly explore a multitude of spatial configurations in what Lars Spuybroek defined ‘the architecture of variation’.
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The church of Longuelo is the last main building designed by Pino Pizzigoni and could be considered his most innovative work, representing the sum of experimentation about shells made during the last twenty years of his activity. His final project was presented in May 1961. The construction started in 1962 and…
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Engineering Architecture: How virtual becomes real
- 26 September 2012
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Alberto Pugnale, Architects, Engineers, Artists, Parametric Design, Publications/Conferences, Research, Teaching and learning
- 1 Comment
This article was published in BLOOM n°14 in 2012 (in Italian). Wilfing Architecture has recently republished this article online, fixing a few typos and enriching the text with images for a more immediate understanding of design precedents and references. English readers can find a translated version of the article below.…
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Which NURBS do you belong to?
- 2 April 2007
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Books, Mathematics, Geometry and Topology, Parametric Design, Researchers, Academics
- 3 Comments
Le superfici NURBS possono essere generate in modi differenti, e proprio a partire dal metodo col quale le si genera si può classificarle in cinque tipologie. Il testo di Massimiliano Ciammaichella (vedi Bibliografia) le spiega ed espone esaustivamente una per una. E’ interessante notare come la modalità di generazione di…