PILE-REBAR: Parametric Reinforcement Drawing Automation for Drilled Foundation Piles

PILE-REBAR: Parametric Reinforcement Drawing Automation for Drilled Foundation Piles When computational design enters the structural engineer’s most repetitive workflow The context In Italian structural engineering practice, foundation pile reinforcement drawings…

One Helix by UNStudio: Structural Textile Analysis for Custom Textile Facade Panels

One Helix by UNStudio: Structural Textile Analysis for Custom Textile Facade Panels When computational design mediates between manufacturing and engineering verification The project One Helix is one of the most…

The Useless Abundance – When code costs nothing, what is actually worth something for an Architect?

  The ITA version is at the bottom of this page here   We are entering an era where building software costs about as much as having an idea: almost…

The Bubble That Works — What happens to architecture when intelligence becomes abundant

The ITA version is at the bottom of this page here I read Citrini Research’s “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” with the same attention one gives a geotechnical survey before…

Building with Lightness: a synthesis from the centennial symposium

From Frei Otto’s form-finding to the frontiers of robotic fabrication: how lightweight structures are redefining the relationship between architecture, nature, and environmental responsibility. A synthesis from the centennial symposium. In…

“Pretend Intelligence”: Stallman’s Provocation and the Question of What We’re Actually Building

Last Friday (24th of January, 2026) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Richard Stallman delivered a lecture of about fifty minutes, followed by more than ninety minutes of…