Cumincad : Works : Main Menu. Manuel Delanda, "Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture" Manuel DeLanda, Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture (2000) The computer simulation of evolutionary processes is already a well established technique for the study of biological dynamics.
One can unleash within a digital environment a population of virtual plants or animals and keep track of the way in which these creatures change as they mate and pass their virtual genetic materials to their offspring. The hard work goes into defining the relation between the virtual genes and the virtual bodily traits that they generate, everything else -keeping track of who mated with whom, assigning fitness values to each new form, determining how a gene spreads through a population over many generations- is a task performed automatically by certain computer programs collectively known as "genetic algorithms". The study of the formal and functional properties of this type of software has now become a field in itself, quite separate from the applications in biological research which these simulations may have.
What does this mean for the architect?