Editorial: When not buying off the peg becomes a square peg in a round hole

Square peg in a round hole or horseless

Square peg in a round hole or horseless carriage? Reflections on the use of computing in architecture

✍ Thomas Chastain; Yehuda E Kalay; Christopher Peri 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 474 KB

We start with two paradigms that have been used to describe the relationship of computation methods and tools to the production of architecture. The first is that of forcing a square peg into a round hole -implying that the use of a tool is misdirected, or at least poorly fits the processes that hav