Learning Grasshopper

http://architizer.com/blog/computational-design-skillshare/

“Parametricism is the great new style after modernism. Buildings are developed using problem-solving as the driving force rather than by grouping together architectural objects.” - Patrik Schumacher

"A hybrid approach for character modeling using geometric primitives and shape-from-shading algorithm"

Computational design is not just a digital replication of analog tools—instead, it introduces an entirely new framework for how we work. BIM software, at its most advanced, could one day condense plans, renderings, construction documents, structural analysis, and an open sourced specification library into one editable online 3-D model. Meanwhile, both parametrics and digital fabrication are stretching what architects can pragmatically build.

Designboom Interview: Zaha Hadid

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/designboom-interview-zaha-hadid/

"Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. this exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it’s very large. imagine if you multiply that to the scale of a bigger space, and the to the scale of a city. it is like a pianist constantly practicing – it’s the same level of intensity. it increases the repertoires immensely – its unpredictable. some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic. we produce many diagrams to start with and that’s why we have a large repertoire."

Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design

http://www.materialecology.com/assets/pdf/AD_Vol76.pdf

Morphogenesis pertains not only to the development of form and structure in an organism, but also to an organism's evolutionary development over time. It is, in effect, a substantial signpost that in a broad brushstroke takes in the whole gamut of natural systems, both current and in evolution.

Article Mashup:

Computational design and parametricism as a framework for architectural design pertains 'the future' of architecture in morphogenic forms and organic structures, digitally produced in algorithmic functions to stretch the possibilities of architectural design. Computational design will envelope a new way of design in experimentation of variations and architectural forms and concepts. Morphogenic forms of natural systems and design ideas unfold the imperative use of geometric primitives and shape-form-shading algorithms in parametric and computational design, to push the boundaries of architecture.

Morphogenesis:

In architecture, digital morphogenesis is a group of methods that employ digital media for form-making and adaptation rather than for representation, often in an aspiration to express or respond to contextual processes. "In this inclusive understanding, digital morphogenesis in architecture bears a largely analogous or metaphoric relationship to the processes of morphogenesis in nature, sharing with it the reliance on gradual development but not necessarily adopting or referring to the actual mechanisms of growth or adaptation. Recent discourse on digital morphogenesis in architecture links it to a number of concepts including emergence, self organisation and form-finding.