Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? This volume challenges the reader to tackle these complex questions and more. It presents many, various and often seemingly disparate points of view that lead to the establishment of one common theme; algorithmic architecture.

In design, the problems that designers are called upon to solve can be regarded as a problem of permutations. A permutation is an ordered arrangement of elements in a set. In our case, the set is design and the elements are design components, such as lines, shapes, forms, or spaces. Traditionally, such arrangements are done by human designers who base their decision-making process either on intuition or on random sampling until a valid solution is found. However, in both cases the solution found may be an acceptable one but cannot be labeled as the best possible solution due to the subjective...