Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design

*included in the attached DVD

Keynote Lecture*

Paul Coates

Teaching Architecture through Algorithms

• the First 15 Years

University of East London

School of Architecture and the Visual Arts

London

United Kingdom

Paul Coates has been publishing papers on computing and design and design education since 1981 starting
with a joint paper with john Frazer on the 'shape processor' a language to construct patterns and drawings
on microcomputers. In 1984 worked with bill hillier on developing computer based applications as part of
the space syntax project since 1991 has been running the masc. computing and design at University of east
London. In 2002 he and colleagues set up the 'centre for evolutionary computing in architecture' (CECA)
that has been responsible for a number of projects - a partner in VIPA ,an EU funded project to design
an online virtual campus for teaching architecture in europe(2005-7), and the urban buzz smart solutions
for spatial planning (SSSP) - a government project to use generative models of urban structure with Local
authorities in London to define sustainable development options in planning. He will be publishing 'pro-
gramming architecture' (Routledge) JAN 2008.