This weeks readings (Michael Weinstock's, The Architecture of Emergance) reminded me a lot of my visit to the Grand Canyon. An truly breathtaking moment was viewing the Sun as it rose in the morning, stretching it's light across the canyon walls and casting awe inspiring shadows.
Though scale is a major factor in the Grand Canyon's power the truly natural way in which such a structure was developed is beyond fascinating. There were constraints, factors, variables all of which led to the canyon's exact structure (as it stands today) but most of which are not considered.
Emergent architecture is all around us but the key is harnessing the process and replicating it in a believable/similar fashion. Currently parametric design is somewhat constrained to a copying of sorts. Parts generate and change but they are systemic. Nature is the true emergent process where the variables and constraints are near infinite, yet the result is a single conclusion. As generative design and computational abilities progress I feel true generative (emergent) design will perhaps come closer to a reality; only time will tell.
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