Writing: all

This is everything I've written for magazines and blogs over the years. For a curated list of my writing, return to the main writing page.

2024

2024 Workplace Futures Report
Indesign LiveWorkplaces on Campus: New dynamics for a distinctive workforce
HassellThe Big Calm: Workplace Futures Survey
HassellThe State of Tech Industry Workplaces
HassellRedefining workspaces: the rise of the desk-less office
Hassell

2023

Great Adaptations: 2023 Workplace Futures Survey
HassellFrom Office to Oasis: How landlords and developers can transform workplaces with green spaces
HassellThe Three-Day-a-Week Office: A strategy for the new era of hybrid working
Hassell

2022

The Magnetic Workplace: 2022 Workplace Futures Survey
HassellBetter Design Decisions: Architecture and data
Architect AustraliaThe Elastic Office Building
Hassell

2021

The Architecture of Social Media
Architect MagazineCAD's Boring Future and Why it's Exciting
danieldavis.comThe headlines say people want to work 2-3 days from home... Are they right?
HassellKaterra's $2 Billion Legacy
Architect MagazineFive Models for the Post-Pandemic Workplace
Harvard Business ReviewWhy You'll Probably Return to the Office – Even if You Don't Want to
danieldavis.com

2020

Generative Design is Doomed to Fail
danieldavis.comModular Architecture is Back. Is it Better?
Architect MagazineArchitects Versus Autodesk
Architect Magazine

2019

What ‘The Future of The Professions’ Reveals About the Future of Architecture
danieldavis.comHumanizing Architectural Automation: A Case Study in Office Layouts
Design Modelling SymposiumCan Algorithms Design Buildings?
Architect MagazineHere Come Big Tech and the Venture Capitalists
Architect MagazineHow Coworking Spaces Affect Employees’ Professional Identities
Harvard Business ReviewVertically Integrated Research: An unusual business model
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2016

Evaluating Buildings with Computation and Machine Learning
danieldavis.comSmartGeometry in Sweden and in Space
Architect MagazineSpatial Analytics: New Ways of Understanding Architecture at WeWork R&D
WeWork

2015

Modelling Practice
Design Modelling SymposiumOn Designalyze
DesignalyzeThe Underrated Success of Stevens
Architect MagazineThe Next Generation of Computational Design
Architect MagazineWhy Architects Can't Be Automated
Architect MagazineHow Big Data is Transforming Architecture
Architect MagazineThe Growing Importance of Research in Practice
Architect Magazine

2014

What's Next for Autodesk is What's Next for Architects
Architect MagazineWhere Gender Inequity Persists in Architecture: The Technology Sector
Architect MagazineQuantitatively Analysing Parametric Models
danieldavis.comHow to Draw a Hyperboloid
danieldavis.comNot Everything is Captured by the Fitness Function
ColonSmartgeometry: Drones, Games, and Mathematics are What’s Next in Urban Design
Architect MagazineParadigm Shifted: New Zealand
danieldavis.comWhat’s Past and What’s Next in Architecture at the Venice Biennale
Architect MagazineArchitects are More Productive Than Statistics Indicate
Architect MagazineDesigning Architecture Like We Design Software
ENRFind Yourself and Get Ahead of Technology
Architect Magazine

2013

Big Data
AEC Mag@CASE_inc
danieldavis.comThe Future of Architectural Discourse
danieldavis.comPhD Thesis – Modelled on Software Engineering: Flexible Parametric Models in the Practice of Architecture
RMIT UniversityChapter 9 – Conclusion
danieldavis.comChapter 8 – Discussion: Beyond Toolmaking
danieldavis.comChapter 7 – Interactive Programming
danieldavis.comChapter 6 – Structured Programming
danieldavis.comChapter 5 – Logic Programming
danieldavis.comChapter 4 – Measuring Flexibility
danieldavis.comChapter 3 – The Design of Software Engineering
danieldavis.comChapter 2 – The Challenges of Parametric Modelling
danieldavis.comChapter 1 – Introduction
danieldavis.comParametric Typography
danieldavis.comA History of Parametric
danieldavis.comPractice 2.0: 10 Years of Smart Geometry
ArchDailyFabPod
danieldavis.comWhat's in a name?
danieldavis.comDesign Ecosystems: Customising the Architectural Design Environment with Software Plug-ins
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2012

HTML5 & WebGL – one year on
danieldavis.comInterview with a supernode - Andrea Graziano
danieldavis.comYeti: Designing geometric tools with interactive programming.
danieldavis.comCASE inc. on putting computation to work
danieldavis.comResponsive architect: Chin Koi Khoo
danieldavis.comDigital Culture in Architecture
danieldavis.com

2011

Of the year - 2011
danieldavis.comParametric modelling is hard
danieldavis.comCAD's uneasy relationship with tablets
danieldavis.comUnderstanding Visual Scripts: Improving collaboration through modular programming
danieldavis.comScripting cultures - Mark Burry
danieldavis.comThe MacLeamy curve
danieldavis.comModelling Hyperboloid Sound Scattering: The Challenge of Simulating, Fabricating and Measuring
danieldavis.comDatamining Grasshopper
danieldavis.comPatenting Geometry
danieldavis.comYeti - 0.2
danieldavis.comScripting Cultures
danieldavis.comCAAD Futures 2011
danieldavis.comUntangling Parametric Schemata: Enhancing Collaboration Through Modular Programming
danieldavis.comDesignScript - Autodesk
danieldavis.comYeti - public release
danieldavis.comHTML5 & WebGL
danieldavis.comYeti
danieldavis.comThreading Grasshopper
danieldavis.comInside Smart Geometry
danieldavis.comLive Programming in Rhino
danieldavis.comSmart Geometry 2011
danieldavis.comThe Flexibility of Logic Programming: Parametrically Regenerating the Sagrada Família
danieldavis.comDesigning Responsive Architecture: Mediating Analogue and Digital Modelling in Studio
danieldavis.comCopenhagen 2.0
danieldavis.comDermoid
danieldavis.comResponsive Acoustic Surfaces
danieldavis.comA computer scientists dream system for designing houses
danieldavis.comLars Spuybroek
danieldavis.comSmart Geometry
danieldavis.com

2010

Of the year
danieldavis.comSchumacher on Schumacher
danieldavis.comThe New Mathematics of Architecture
danieldavis.comThe logic of architecture
danieldavis.comThe New Mathematics of Architecture
danieldavis.comNew tools: DraftSight to Evolute
danieldavis.comPatrik Schumacher - Parametricism
danieldavis.comElements of parametric design - Woodbury
danieldavis.comI suck at parametric design
danieldavis.comUntangling Grasshopper - Part 2: Optimisation
danieldavis.comUntangling Grasshopper - Part 1: Design patterns
danieldavis.comTrending topics
danieldavis.comSwarming /& dynamic relaxation on a surface
danieldavis.comOptimisation in the 1960s and 2010
danieldavis.comGraph visualisation in processing
danieldavis.comA stalkers guide to Neil Leach
danieldavis.comDeLanda & Leach
danieldavis.comEaster eggs
danieldavis.comDo relationships matter?
danieldavis.comWhat the GUI cost architecture
danieldavis.comVoussoir Cloud
danieldavis.comParametric Software review
danieldavis.comManuel Delanda
danieldavis.com

2009

CAD 50 years ago
danieldavis.comA-periodic tiling in architecture
danieldavis.comGraphemes by Sawapan
danieldavis.comGenetic Staircase by Caliper Studio
danieldavis.comArchiKludge
danieldavis.comEvolving Digital Morphogenesis by Means of Biology and Computer Science
danieldavis.comThree essential books
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