"Looking back to the past century, there were various visionary designers such as Isler, Otto, Candela and Shukhov using design methods comparable to today’s computational design, operating in a pre-computational parametric set-up. They applied mathematical algorithms and principles observed in nature to develop pioneering buildings... as milestones of architectural production. Vladimir Shukhov... was one of the first to embrace such an innovative approach."
January 1, 1970
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