Collective Intelligence in Design

Exploring how today’s most compelling architecture is emerging from new forms of collaborative practice, this title of AD engages three predominant phenomena: architecture’s relationship with digital and telecommunication technology; the media; and economies of globalisation. The articles in the issue explore the relationship between these readings and examine, for the first time, the implications of these phenomena upon forms of architectural invention and production. While much attention has been focused upon the influence of digital media on architectural form and technique, little has examined its far broader implications for forms of architectural practice. Yet, as with modernism and the professionalization of architecture at the end of the 19^th century and the rise of architectural corporations in the mid-20^th century, the future of architectural design will inevitably depend upon reconfigurations of architectural authorship.

Chris Perry is a graduate of Columbia University where he completed a Masters of Architecture. He spent two years working as a project designer for Stan Allen before founding his own practice servo with three partners. He is a visiting professor at Cornell University of Architecture and a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts.

Christopher Hight holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Humanities from the London Consortium. He is a theorist and a designer who is currently an assistant professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, where he is the editor of the publication programme, Architecture At Rice. He is a founding member of the Do-group, Rice's design research studio and a partner in mesolith, an incubator for architectural culture.