Architectural geometry as design knowledge

Architectural Design

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 72-77

  Pottmann, Helmut ^a  

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EID: 77954799556     PISSN: 00038504     EISSN: 15542769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1109     Document Type: Article

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1. CATIA is one of the first and most prominent examples of software transferred from the automotive and aircraft industries into architecture, namely by Frank Gehry. NURBS-based modellers, such as Rhino, are mainly based on technologies originally developed for applications other than architecture.
2. See Helmut Pottmann, Michael Hofer and Axel Kilian (eds), Advances in Architectural Geometry, Vienna, 2008; see www.architecturalgeometry.at/aag08.
3. Evolute GmbH is a spin-off from Helmut Pottmann's research group at TU Vienna, which performs research, development and consulting in geometric computing for architecture and manufacturing technologies; see www.evolute.at
4. See Helmut Pottmann, A Asperl, M Hofer and A Kilian, Architectural Geometry, Bentley Institute Press (Exton, PA), 2007, which provides support for meeting the resulting challenges in education and also leads the way from basic high-school geometry to research in AG.
5. Dennis Shelden, 'Digital surface representation and the constructability of Gehry's architecture', PhD thesis, MIT, 2002.
6. See Helmut Pottmann, Alexander Schiftner, Pengbo Bo, Heinz Schmiedhofer, Wenping Wang, Niccolo Baldassini and Johannes Wallner, 'Freeform surfaces from single curved panels', ACM Transactions on Graphics 27, 2008. Ongoing related research is funded via Project 230520 of the FP7-IAPP framework; project partners TU Wien, Evolute and RFR Engineers, Paris (www.rfr.fr).