Programming for Cities

“Programming

for Cities” is a

workshop that reinforces a long existing link between

code and

architecture. Many fine buildings can be reduced to a few lines

of

code, and a quick glance backward in time shows that is a consequence

of architectural theory.

This workshop will

start with a short but broad overview of this longstanding

connection

between programming and architecture. After this the basic

elements

(about 6 of them) of programming will be discussed. The main

part of

the workshop will be consisting of a hand-on approach to design

a

city from code.

Technical skills are

not needed for this workshop. No Computers will

be used. This

workshop is ideal precisely for those people who think that

programming is not for them.

Apart

from making people familiar with code, which might break the ice

in

actually learning a more conventional programming language, the

purposes

of this workshop is to show a method of design that is

driven by internal

logic instead of the ‘one damn bit after another’

approach more commonly

used.

Friday

December 3rd, 3 pm

Public Space

With A Roof Overtoom 301

1054 HW

Amsterdam

The Netherlands

http://www.pswar.org