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Issue 8.2

Drawn Together: Coding and Curating Architectural Drawing After Computation

Adam Marcus & Andrew Kudless
Research Methodologies

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, John Maeda, computer scientist and founder of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, developed the programming language Design by Numbers, or DBN, as a process-centric approach to graphics and computation. His students Casey Reas and Ben Fry expanded the DBN project in 2001 into the Processing language and programming platform. Both languages used “sketches” for the executable files producing digital graphics. The term implied an alternative, exploratory approach to writing code.

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