Computational design thinking / edited by Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Computational design thinking / Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges -- Formation and transformation / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- On the theory of transformations, or the comparison of related forms / D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson -- Variational evolution / Ernst Mayr -- The meaning of general system theory / Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Systems generating systems / Christopher Alexander -- The architectural relevance of cybernetics / Gordon Pask -- Towards a humanism through machines / Nicholas Negroponte -- A new agenda for computer-aided design / William J Mitchell -- Algorithmic form / Kostas Terzidis -- Architecture and practical design computation / Mark Burry -- An introduction to creative evolutionary systems / Peter J Bentley and David W Corne -- Constrained generating procedures / John H Holland -- Real virtuality / Manuel DeLanda -- A natural model for architecture / John Frazer -- Morphogenesis and the mathematics of emergence / Michael Weinstock -- Philosophy of mathematics for computational design : spatial intuition versus logic / Jane Burry -- Associative design : from type to population / Peter Trummer -- Integral formation and materialisation : computational form and material gestalt / Achim Menges -- The computational fallacy / Sanford Kwinter.