Michael Hansmeyer
Michael Hansmeyer
Michael Hansmeyer is a post-modern architect who utilizes algorithmic architecture techniques, generative art mentalities, and CAD software to generate complex structures. He is currently based in the CAAD group at ETH's architecture department in Zurich. He holds an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. He previously worked with McKinsey & Company, J.P. Morgan, and at Herzog & de Meuron architects...
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design process objects
I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.
allow create creating dreamed point processes scales structures
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
motivational inspiration design
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?
reality drawing design
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isnt really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
motivation inspiration thinking
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.