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John Frazer
No full textJohn Frazer, Professor, trained at the Architectural Association, taught first at Cambridge University and then the AA in the 1970s and again in the '90s. He was Head of School of Design Research History and Criticism at the University of Ulster in the 1980s, he also ran a systems and design consultancy with his wife Julia (including projects for Cedric Price and Walter Segal) and was founder and chairman of Autographics software. He is currently Swire Chair Professor and Head of School of Design in Hong Kong.-----\ud
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This is a very personal perspective on a concept of universal and future significance. It is personal, both is the sense that it is an unashamedly biased view of both the significance of the project, and the nature of that significance and because the author was personally involved as one of the consultants on GENERATOR and subsequently involved Cedric Price in its educational application at the Architectural Association. GENERATOR is still very much alive and was still developing whilst this chapter was being written.\u
Letter to S.D. Woodruff from John Frazer
No full textLetter to S.D. Woodruff from John Frazer of Fonthill stating that the cheques for engineer services
are enclosed, Sept. 5, 1855
Computing without computers
No full textJohn Frazer trained as an architect in London and at Cambridge during the 1960's and 1970's. He identified at the very earliest stages of their development how the processing power of computers might assist the design process, and then tried to imagine the role of effects of this on the role of the architect, the client/user and the environment
In the beginning...
No full textProfessor John Frazer and architect Gianni Botsford met as tutor and student in 1994 at the Architural Association. Two years of never talking about architecture and nearly burning the studio down led to a new way of approaching design
A natural model for architecture
No full textIn John Frazer's seminal book An Evolutionary Architecture (1995), from which this essay is extracted, a fundamental approach is established for have natural systems can unfold mechanisms for negotiating the complex design space inherent in architectural systems. In this essay, which forms a critical part of the book, Frazer draws both correlations and distinctions from natural processes as emulated in design processes and form as active manifestations within natural systems. Form is seen as an evolving agent generated via the rules of descriptive genetic coding, functioning as a part of a metabolic environment. Frazer's process-model establishes the realm in which computation must manoeuvre to produce a valid solution space, including the operations of self-organisation, complexity and emergent behaviour. Addressing design as an authored practice, he extends the transference of 'creativity' from the explicit impression into form, to the investment of though, organisation and strategy in the computational processes which produce form. Frazer's text concentrates astutely on the practising of the evolutionary paradigm, the output of which postulates an architecture born of the relationships to dynamic environmental and socio-economic contexts, and realised through morphogenetic materialisation
Bookplate John Hart
No full textMedium: wood engravingprintsnot signed, not dated."Bookplate John Hart" [2014.0102.000.000], Frazer, DavidArtist and Role: Frazer, David,Extent: shee
The sonnet
No full text[sound recording] / John Smith. The dramatic monologue - part 1 by Fran Frazer.; 1 sound cassette (60 minutes); Broadcast on CFCY Radio, Charlottetown, April 13 & 15, 1972.; The dramatic monologue - part 1Source type: Electronic(1
A Natural Model for Architecture: the Nature of the Evolutionary Model
No full textJohn Frazer's architectural work is inspired by living and generative processes. Both evolutionary and revolutionary, it explores information ecologies and the dynamics of the spaces between objects. Fuelled by an interest in the cybernetic network of Gordon Pask and Norbert Wiener, and the possiblities of the computer and the 'new science' it has facilitated, Frazer and his team of collaborators have conducted a series of experiments that utilize genetic algorithms, cellular automata, emergent behaviour, complexity and feedback loops to create a truly dynamic architecture
Price, Cedric John
No full textDemonstrating his concept of 'anticipatory architecture', Cedric Price placed architecture in an entirely new perspective, generating models for a future architecture as yet unrealized
A generative design system based on evolutionary and mathematical functions
No full textPrevious work by Professor John Frazer on Evolutionary Architecture provides a basis for the development of a system evolving architectural envelopes in a generic and abstract manner. Recent research by the authors has focused on the implementation of a virtual environment for the automatic generation and exploration of complex forms and architectural envelopes based on solid modelling techniques and the integration of evolutionary algorithms, enhanced computational and mathematical models. Abstract data types are introduced for genotypes in a genetic algorithm order to develop complex models using generative and evolutionary computing techniques. Multi-objective optimisation techniques are employed for defining the fitness function in the evaluation process
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