Software Comes to Matter: Toward a Material History of Computational Design

Daniel Cardoso Llach is assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches courses on the history and theory of computational design and fabrication media, and on creative computing. He holds an SM and PhD in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BArch from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. His book Builders of the Vision (Routledge, 2015) com-bines design, computation and STS methods to trace the intellectual history of Computer-Aided Design and digital fabrication technologies. Beginning in the fall of 2015, he will join the faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture.