Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop
Antoni Gaudi's structural experiments anchor this MIT research workshop on three-dimensional form-finding. Students from architecture and computer science work together to build design tools that determine how structural systems reach static equilibrium under different loads, aiming for real-time analysis software useful to practicing architects and engineers. The course materials include the workshop syllabus, project briefs, and readings on structural optimization methods, available through MIT OpenCourseWare. Because it is run as a hands-on research workshop rather than a lecture course, the emphasis falls on building working design tools rather than passive study, with computational geometry and load analysis as recurring techniques. No certificate is offered, but all materials are free to access and reuse under MIT's open license.