Pattern Recognition

3 units

Interrogates a recent history of architecture replete with pattern. Case studies of patterning in contemporary projects will be undertaken through the production of analytical, computational models to reveal an underlying logic of performance and construction. In parallel, the course will present a theoretical survey of related issues in art, psychology, computation, and ecology. In this context, pattern will be understood as a performative expression of an ecological system, distinct from historical issues of ornament and representations. Informed by the analysis, students will then digitally produce an original pattern, both graphically operative and spatially materialized.