Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design

"Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design" is a specialized book that explores the development and impact of computer-based design methods in architecture and other creative disciplines. It highlights the innovative power of the post-World War II era, when government investments in university research in North America and Great Britain fostered multidisciplinary projects. These projects examined the application of computers in manufacturing and design. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between technical innovations in software, geometry, and hardware, and the cultural imagination of design. It demonstrates how these developments shaped the creation of computer-generated images, endowing them with both geometric plasticity and a new kind of agency as operational design artifacts.