CHASING SCIENCE CULTURE

the evolution of computational architecture appears as what N. K. Hayles calls a seriation

“perhaps the most challenging of the conditions created by the emergence of new technologies of digital design... has been the simultaneous emergence of new theoretical and philosophical frameworks that constitute the intellectual foundations of digital design.”

Rivka Oxman, who has claimed that the emergence of digital architecture cannot be explained without an understanding of the parallel development of its technical aspects and of new frameworks to think architectural problems.

Manovich uses the concept of transcodification to explain the replacement, in computer-mediated cultural productions, of traditional categories by other categories that stem not only from the pragmatics of the computer, but from an informational ontology and epistemology

digital architecture has been cybernetic. This means that the constructions of digital architecture have not been exclusively the result of the introduction of computational pragmatics in architectural design, but of the construction of disciplinary problems in reference to an informational vision of things.

These have been on the basis of the development of various digital design methods where the production of space has been considered as the result of a dynamic process, as a problem solving question, or as an algorithmic procedure.

digital architecture research has been grounded on informational constructions of architectural issues.

performance design was described as the set of techniques that allow a designer to see a series of isolated elements, or events, as interconnected and mutually dependent.

the studies conducted at the dawn of digital architecture fostered an imagination of architectural objects as performative, communicational, and systemic artifacts, governed by a logic of circular causality.

As it has been exposed by different scholars, these early explorations of computational architecture were informed by cybernetic principles or by scientific notions inherited from fields which have a close relation with this model, among them structuralism, operations research, linguistics and systems analysis