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DESCRIPTION:MIT Department of Architecture / Fall 2017 Lecture Series\n\nOr
 ganized by Moa Carlsson\, PhD Candidate\, Design & Computation Group at MIT
 \, MIT Department of Architecture\n \n\nIn discourses about design\, comput
 ation often operates ambivalently both as a reference to concrete technolog
 ies\, and as an epistemic template for generative\, descriptive\, or analyt
 ical aspirations. Tracing early disclosures of this productive ambivalence\
 , this talk will reflect on two artifacts from the history of Computer-Aide
 d Design. The first is the “Plex\,” a theoretical construct developed by ma
 thematician Douglas Ross in the mid 1950s\, which helped steer early CAD re
 search and foreshadowed object orientation. The second is the “Coons patch\
 ,” an early mathematical technique for the calculation and display of curve
 d surfaces on a computer\, developed by Steve A. Coons\, which first demons
 trated the geometric plasticity of computer graphics\, and was crucial to a
 ttract a generation of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic —prominent
 ly at Cambridge\, UK\, and at MIT— to problems of simulation\, computationa
 l geometry\, and design.\n\n \n\nThe talk will explore these artifacts’ rea
 lization through a plurality of discursive and material practices involving
  diagrams\, numerically-produced objects\, writing\, and (crucially) softwa
 re\, and explicate their role in the definition of a new type of image no l
 onger understood as a pictorial representation of a design but rather as an
  operative artifact performing it. Ultimately\, the talk will show how thes
 e artifacts both inscribe and elicit a technological imagination of design 
 and representation distinctly shaping architectural and design sensibilitie
 s today.\n\n \n\nDaniel Cardoso Llach is Assistant Professor in the School 
 of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. His recent work includes the
  book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routl
 edge\, 2015)\, which offers an intellectual history of CAD by identifying a
 nd documenting the theories of design emerging at postwar MIT technology pr
 ojects\, and traces critically their architectural repercussions. His writi
 ng has been published in journals including Design Issues\, Architecture Re
 search Quarterly (ARQ)\, and Thresholds\, among others\, and in several edi
 ted collections. He is a Graham Foundation grantee and the curator of a cur
 rent exhibition on the history and contemporary practice of computational d
 esign at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon. Daniel holds a Bachelor of 
 Architecture from Universidad de los Andes\, Bogotá\, and a PhD and an MS (
 with honors) in Design and Computation from MIT. He has also been a researc
 h fellow at Leuphana (MECS)\, Germany and a visiting scholar at the Univers
 ity of Cambridge\, UK.
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SUMMARY:Daniel Cardoso Llach | Designing the Computational Image / Imaginin
 g Computational Design
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