Optimization techniques offer immense potential for the improvement of performance-driven design; since they allow the adoption of an holistic approach. This can lead to great advantages: optimal design solutions can be properly identified only if all criteria are considered at the same time; rather than separately. There are two barriers which obstruct optimization from being applied to building design: a technological barrier (applying the algorithms is not easy and can be quite time-consuming) and a cultural one (architects and engineers are required to change their perspectives as the design process has to be handled in a new way). This book explores these barriers from the perspective of both engineers and architects; and proposes a change in the attitudes of these two ldquo;actorsrdquo;: an engineer and an architect develop a dialog which helps them understand each otherrsquo;s perspective; in this way they find how they must both make a step forward.
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