The architecture machine

Abstract The report documents the state of The Architecture Machine, as a teaching operation, as a computer-aided design facility, and as a computer science research unit. The underlying theme of all these roles is to understand the makings of architecture; the interfaces between people, machines, and the real world; and the ingredients of intelligent behaviour. Design is construed as an inference-making procedure. We postulate that it must be aided by very personalized computer systems, idiosyncratic systems, capable of handling ambiguities, incosistencies, and the vagaries indigenous to design thinking.