Collection of published and unpublished articles on design theory.
1 Jun 2016 • 14 min read
Digital Tools Beyond Aesthetics
Introduction Digital design tools are now undergoing a transition of application scope, expanding beyond their initial technical domains and leveraging the flexibility of the digital medium. Digital means of communication are enabling the self-organisation of new cultures as well as decision-making structures revolving around the possibilities inherent to the digital
29 Sep 2015 • 6 min read
Algorithmic Abuse
A short attempt to raise awareness towards several gaps in computational architecture’s theory and practice.
9 Sep 2015 • 10 min read
Relinquishing Control: Reactions To Emergence
Published as: Dimitrie Stefanescu, Relinquishing Control: Reactions to Emergence, Fragile Conference Proceedings, Bruxelles/Ghent, 04/2011 You can not reduce the city to merely the sum of its parts – its nature escapes the deterministic world we, until recently, thought we lived in and goes on to manifest itself in the
9 Sep 2015 • 13 min read
Framing Optimisation in Contemporary Architecture
Testing the concept of optimization: repercussions on the way we design or justify our designs.
1 Jul 2013 • 1 min read
Delivering Processes: A Question
This post is asking an important question: how can designers deliver a process?
16 Sep 2012 • 10 min read
Tools of The Digital Fetish: Computation and User
Cite as: Dimitrie Stefanescu, Tools of The Digital Fetish, Horizonte, Bauhaus Universitaet Weimar, Weimar, 09/2012The Jump into DigitalArchitecture has made an irreversible jump into the computational world. We can now justly affirm that the digital medium has gained a considerable foothold in this otherwise traditional and highly suspicious domain.