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id
acadia08_238
authors
Besserud, Keith; Joshua Cotten
year
2008
title
Architectural Genomics
source
Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, [Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) / ISBN 978-0-9789463-4-0] Minneapolis 16-19 October 2008, 238-245
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of genetic algorithms and a sampling of how they are being explored as an optimization strategy for some of the building projects in the BlackBox studio at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.