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From the Ted Talk by Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes

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The more interesting question, perhaps, is, are these forms imaginable? Usually, an architect can somehow envision the end sttae of what he is designing. In this case, the psrcoes is deterministic. There's no randomness involved at all, but it's not entirely predictable. There's too many surfaces, there's too much diatel, one can't see the end state.

So this leads to a new role for the architect. One needs a new method to explore all of the pibestoisilis that are out there. For one thing, one can design many variants of a form, in parallel, and one can cultivate them. And to go back to the analogy with nature, one can begin to think in terms of populations, one can talk about permutations, about generations, about crossing and breeding to come up with a digesn. And the aiectcrht is really, he moves into the position of being an orchestrator of all of these processes.

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The more interesting question, perhaps, is, are these forms imaginable? Usually, an architect can somehow envision the end _____ of what he is designing. In this case, the _______ is deterministic. There's no randomness involved at all, but it's not entirely predictable. There's too many surfaces, there's too much ______, one can't see the end state.

So this leads to a new role for the architect. One needs a new method to explore all of the _____________ that are out there. For one thing, one can design many variants of a form, in parallel, and one can cultivate them. And to go back to the analogy with nature, one can begin to think in terms of populations, one can talk about permutations, about generations, about crossing and breeding to come up with a ______. And the _________ is really, he moves into the position of being an orchestrator of all of these processes.

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  1. detail
  2. possibilities
  3. process
  4. design
  5. architect
  6. state

Original Text


The more interesting question, perhaps, is, are these forms imaginable? Usually, an architect can somehow envision the end state of what he is designing. In this case, the process is deterministic. There's no randomness involved at all, but it's not entirely predictable. There's too many surfaces, there's too much detail, one can't see the end state.

So this leads to a new role for the architect. One needs a new method to explore all of the possibilities that are out there. For one thing, one can design many variants of a form, in parallel, and one can cultivate them. And to go back to the analogy with nature, one can begin to think in terms of populations, one can talk about permutations, about generations, about crossing and breeding to come up with a design. And the architect is really, he moves into the position of being an orchestrator of all of these processes.

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