This research explores systemic thinking and digital design techniques that yield architectural forms that have contributed to the contemporary discourse of architecture. The last sixteen years in digital design and fabrication have given primacy to the development of dynamical systems and other emergent techniques, focusing on their formal outcomes and their fabrication using laser cutters, CNC milling machines and robotics. As the discourse of digital design and fabrication technologies has evolved, it has been documented and explored through a series of Architectural Design (AD) issues edited by architects that use these techniques within their design practices. The next issue in this series suggests that once an aesthetic sensibility is achieved architecture practices need to adapt to become more synthetic, seamlessly integrating the design, and manufacturing of material formations. The mastery of techniques, whether in design, production or both, does not necessarily yield great architecture. As we all know, the most advanced techniques can still yield average designs. Architects are becoming increasingly adept at producing complexity and integrating digital design and fabrication techniques into their design process. This research explores some of the instances in which designers are able to move beyond technique, by commanding them to such a degree so as to achieve nuances within the formal development of projects. It is important for architects to identify those disciplinary or technological trajectories that have potential for yielding new horizons and directives. Technological advances lead to the evolution of new devices, which give rise to new formal and material possibilities. Crossing between disciplines results in the formal and material innovation for new collaborative practices that rethink the design, and construction of architecture. Borrowing from other spheres, can assist architecture practices to become more synthetic, integrating design and the manufacturing of material formations. To develop an aesthetic sensibility and to invent a more plastic practice one needs to become familiarized with both the systems theory and how they relate to digital techniques that have the potential to yield a range of aesthetics in form. In pursuit of this optimal utilization of digital design, the project addresses theories of systemic thinking and explores particular digital design techniques that yield an aesthetic effect that leads to innovation in design practice.

"Architecture Design Innovation” by Ali Rahim