Angelos Floros

Presented: Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, 2006

Architecture has become in our days more complicated and more interesting. All the design process currently remains digital in all of its phases, from the sketch up to the construction site. Architects, instead of using tools in order to complete the architectural process, have to create systems that will be able to manage every part of the process. Euclidean geometry has been replaced by the Parabolic and Hyperbolic Geometry of the Bernhard Riemann’s and the Nikolai Lobachevsky’s works. The building geometry and the structural calculation become more complicate than ever. Man is unable to manage the complexity of the structural process without the computational power and the tools of the computer models.

This lecture was made on the occasion of the teaching course Introduction to CAD/CAM Systems at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, giving the chance to first year students to meet the upcoming issues of architectural complexity.