Designers need powerful tools and methods to address the challenges of modern design. Computational design combines art and algorithms to support and enhance the design process. It can pave the way ...

In November, architects, designers, digital fabricators, and innovators gathered in Calgary, Canada, for the 2024 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference. This year’s ...

For the first time, the CDRF2026 International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF2026) is coming to Australia. From 8–10 July, our friends at the ARC Centre for Next-Gen ...

THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: An Online Interactive Conference with global frontiers. Two-Day online conference with live presentations, tutorials, interactive Sessions, live mentorship & panel ...

Additive manufacturing plays an essential role in producing metamaterials by precisely controlling geometries and multiscale structures to achieve the desired properties. In this Comment, we highlight ...

Producing interactive 3D printed objects currently requires laborious 3D design and post-instrumentation with off-the-shelf electronics. Multi-material 3D printing using conductive PLA presents ...

In the aerospace industry today, “innovation cycles are shrinking,” said Bradley Rothenberg. “Projects that were once given 5 years must now be done in 18 months,” he added, calling it a “tough shift.

What defines a space first when entering: the sound or the visual impression? Architecture is often communicated through structure and surfaces, yet one of its most essential components moves unseen ...

Recent efforts on design for four-dimensional (4D) printing have considered the spatial arrangement of smart materials and energy stimuli. The development of multifunctional structures and their ...

Architect and urban & computational designer Abhinav Bhardwaj made this great set of slides comparing urban design in the US and Europe, peppered with pithy ...