About Generative Landscapes
Welcome to this new platform at generative-landscapes.com, with lots of planned updates and (hopefully) improvements! For now, this site replicates the content at the blog generativelandscapes.wordpress.com with some edits, such as fixing dead links, fixing mistakes in old posts, etc.
I plan to update this new site with new content in the coming months, continuing with some Rhino and Grasshopper content. I will also introduce some new and emergent methods with A.I. in landscape and architectural design. Finally, I will revisit some old posts and introduce video tutorials, formatting improvements in light of the fact that many people access this blog today through smart phones or tablets, and to show improved methods I have learned since I originally started this blog.
I initially created this blog to provide tutorial exercises for a seminar I taught for for learning Grasshopper and Rhino. The examples start out at a basic level, although you may want to watch a few YouTube tutorials covering the fundamentals if you are a complete beginner. I will introduce some introductory YouTube tutorials in the near future, but in the meantime there are plenty of options out there!
The mission of this blog is to deliver educational content with a landscape focus to the widest possible audience. Most content will continue to be provided free of charge but to pay for maintenance and updates to the blog, opportunities will be provided to purchase finished definitions and exercise files through micro-transactions. For those on a budget or wishing not to pay, much content will continue to be provided free of charge.
About Me
My name is Joseph Claghorn and I am a design consultant in the fields of landscape and architecture. I was previously a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield in the UK. I wrote much of the content of this blog while I was a PhD student at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. As part of my research, I’ve been exploring algorithmic systems to see how they are applied or could be applied to the design of landscapes, specifically in the context of landscape architecture.
If you don’t know or are not trying to learn Grasshopper / Rhino, reading the text may prove of limited use, but hopefully you will still find some of the pictures to be pretty!
I am happy to share my work and images which I have created can be freely cited in non-commercial, academic publications. Please credit Joseph Claghorn and the name of this blog. If you want to let me know how any of the content has been used, please leave a comment under the appropriate material.
For general inquiries about potential consulting, seminars, or other support, please email me at support@generative-landscapes.com