The art and science of designing and making building and other spaces for the use of People
As Pask noted, “architects are first and foremost systems designers,” but they lack “an underpinning and unifying theory… Cybernetics is a discipline which fills the bill” [36]. By systematically integrating context and relationships, Cybernetics pushed creation & design beyond its object-based approach.
Also use tools from Design optimization, including Genetic algorithms applied to grid structure optimization which look really cool.
Simulating rain for architecture
Programming architecture is a company that solves problems in the design and construction phase of complex architectural objects. Offers software and knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJJeU9mVSU&list=PLhOObpoQndRmAGJh1mvnE6ye0z-bmIhxF
In the middle of the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, there is a beautiful and deep piece on how Printing killed Architecture. Much like the current story of the Internet killing the printed book. The analogies in the story should give you new eyes with which to look at buildings, and to books, and to human thought and creation.
With VR, the hurdles that caused architecture to die under the weight of the printing press, are no more. Thus why architecture is reviving, in a new virtual medium, that I doubt Victor Hugo could have imagined. The Metaverse is the ground of new Gothic freedom.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j5JQHk89_WAC&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q&f=false