Lego based architecture Written on July 27, 2008, by Ingeborg.
Laying bricks and creating buildings that may collapse is fun, and should be encouraged. It is however quite dangerous and expensive, so Erik Hekman and Michiel Stade built their Media Technology graduation project “Continuous Physical Prototyping in Generative Design” in Lego. They make algorithms generate houses, offices, towns. Since generative (or algorithmic) architecture is way, way older than computers and requires knowledge of construction and esthetics, a human functions as the constructing and evaluating robot, eventually teaching the computer by feedback.