User:MatthiBorif/Artificial Architecture

Overview
Artificial Architecture is the title of a research area located at the intersection of the fields of Architectural Design and Artificial Intelligence. It can be considered a subfield of the broad area of Design Computing, more specifically oriented to Artificial Intelligence, Computational Creativity and Knowledge-based Engineering. The main objectives of this research endeavour are:
 * Development of algorithms to partially simplify or automate architectural design and urban planning tasks.
 * Definition of computable models of architectural knowledge, as general and flexible as possible.
 * Automatic generation of variations on architectural features, structures and objects.

The term has been popularized by the Department of Artificial Architecture (Institute of Artificial Art Amsterdam), where remarkable efforts in this area has been made employing visual grammars to generate random specifications of 3-dimensional objects and structures.

The term Artificial Architecture was proposed and thoroughly used in the title and the content of a PhD Thesis developed at Polytechnical University of Madrid (Spain): Arquitectura Artificial o Manierismo por Computadora (Artificial Architecture or Computer Aided Mannerism).