Digital Techne

Abstract

More than a quarter of century of the advent of computers within architecture, it is time to set out new challenges and problems. One issue that has always been throughout these years, and particularly in the so called “parametric architecture”, is how the projects are materialized, how is the step between the computer to the physical world. Nowadays, one can have several tools to carry out the materialization of a project, but to get a perfect shape, it stands firm, it wastes least material possible, that the material is adequate, these are facts that very few people achieve. Through the concept of digital techne we want to reveal how architectural offices carry out projects from renowned firms, which complex forms are only possible of represent thanks to parametric software, and also detect their main characteristics and skills that highlight them from the rest. To sum up, this article tries to broaden the Greek concept of techne within the digital contemporary context and its different actors.