Architects use CAD to help them visualize their ideas. Through a detailed description of various parametric, generative and algorithmic techniques, this book provides a practical guide to generating geometric and topological solutions for various situations, including explicit step-by-step tutorials

• Algorithmic thinking: Introduction
• Overal structure
• Data types and variables
• Expressions
• Logic and control
• Functions
• Iteration and recursion
• objects, classes, attributes and methods
• Events and callback functions
• Parametric patterns: Controller
• Force field
• Repetition
• Tiling
• Recursion
• Subdivision
• Packing
• Weaving
• Branching
• Next steps: Towards a programming language for design