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Becoming Architectural: Affirmative Critique, Creative Incompletion
Author(s) -
Massumi Brian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1524
Subject(s) - creativity , process (computing) , animation , sociology , aesthetics , generative grammar , visual arts , computer science , art , law , artificial intelligence , political science , operating system
When Greg Lynn embraced digital animation software in the 1990s, he not only redefined architectural production, but also the designer's relationship to the generative process. In this extract from an unpublished essay written in 2000, the philosopher Brian Massumi describes Lynn's ‘in‐folding’ open‐ended approach, which renders the design process ‘less an external conduit for the artist's creativity’ than the artist ‘a conduit for creativity of the design process’.