Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Hansmeyer

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Michael Hansmeyer

Michael Hansmeyer is a post-modern architect who utilizes algorithmic architecture techniques, generative art mentalities, and CAD software to generate complex structures. He is currently based in the CAAD group at ETH's architecture department in Zurich. He holds an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. He previously worked with McKinsey & Company, J.P. Morgan, and at Herzog & de Meuron architects.

Born: 1973
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects. — © Michael Hansmeyer
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.
I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?
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