Reading Three

When starting this reading, the first thing I recognize is it begins talking about design process and how digital software is made to assist architects design, and not use as a design tool. It was relevant to me because the last readings we have read talked about how architects use design programs as a designing tool. However, these tools are intended to increase the chance of random occurrences resulting in many more possible versions. This allows the designer to act as an editor and to apply intuitive, divergent, or aesthetic choices so as to both manipulate the model and develop additional options and subsequently select from among them. In other words, the design programs are used as part of the designing method and the designing process.
This article explains that we should use design computer programs as a design tool so as not to have the program design an architect’s project for him or her. Or else, we might as well design a computer program to totally design a building or object for us. What these programs that can design themselves take away from the architect is his or her self expression in the design; as Plato said, the object of thought was something artists and designers should then strive to recreate in its perfection (pg. 22). Or, as Deleuze says: “To think is to create. There is no other creation (pg. 23).”