Speakers Michael Hansmeyer: Computational architect
Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explores the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form.
Why you should listen to him:
Classical architecture is defined by "orders" -- ways to connect a column to a building, to articulate the joining of materials and structural forces. Colloquially, these orders are based on elemental forms: the tree trunk, the plank, the scroll, the leaf. Michael Hansmeyer is adding a new elemental form: the subdivision algorithm. He turns his math and programming skills to making ornate, organic, hyperdetailed columns generated from lines of code and then comped up in cross-sections of cardboard, almost as if they're being 3D printed.
His latest work with cupolas and domes is even more mesmerizing, like looking deep inside an organic form of near-unbearable complexity.
"His work is composed of sixteen million faces and made from 2,700 layers of cardboard. It is the result of a cutting-edge computational process, and people's responses to it are just as improbable."Laura Alsop, CNN
Quotes by Michael Hansmeyer
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“[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.”
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“[Even] a very simple form contains a lot of information that may not be visible to the human eye.”
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“If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?”
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Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes
- 11:07 Posted: Jul 2012
Michael Hansmeyer on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDGlobal 2012