Reimagining Generative Design

The exhibition Reimagining Generative Design was on display in Richardson Memorial Hall's Gallery from April 3 to April 20. It featured a body of work curated by Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Architecture and Built Design and Architecture and Computation Fellow Emek Erdolu, as well as Pedro Veloso, Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, and Jingo Rhee, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.

Amid ongoing fascination with the novelty and technical capabilities of contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems, Reimagining Generative Design challenges the notion that AI constitutes a new beginning in architecture without a past. The project connects recent architectural engagements with AI to the longer intellectual history of architecture and the technical history of the broader field of generative design, foregrounding continuity rather than a point of origin or rupture. 

Displayed in this exhibition was a visual representation of part of the project, A Taxonomy of Generative Design. This part of the project maps salient technical paradigms and methods from the past eighty years alongside contemporary design works that mobilize them, tracing the development of generative design from knowledge-based and agent-based approaches to current learning-based approaches. To view more of the exhibition online, see the scan below:

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Questions? Contact Emek Erdolu at eerdolu@tulane.edu.