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Algorithmic Tectonics: How Cold War Era Research Shaped Our Imagination of Design
Author(s) -
Llach Daniel Cardoso
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.1546
Subject(s) - cold war , programmer , graphics , history of technology , visual arts , architectural engineering , engineering , art history , computer science , sociology , history , law , political science , art , archaeology , programming language , politics
Between 1959 and 1967, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosted the pioneering Computer‐Aided Design Project, funded by the US Air Force. Engineers, researchers and students were brought together to re‐imagine ‘design in the language of the machine’, and one of the most renowned students on this programme was Ivan Sutherland, the inventor and programmer of Sketchpad ‐ the first interactive graphics system. Here, Daniel Cardoso Llach , an architect and researcher based at MIT, traces the influence of this Cold War project on the culture of building design and production today.