Dr Tuba Kocaturk is a Lecturer in Architectural Design and Technology, and Programme Director for the MSc in Digital Architectural Design, in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford. Dr Benachir Medjdoub is a Reader in the Built Environment in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford.

• Note on editors viiList of contributors viiiForeword xPaul RichensIntroduction: Distributed intelligence in design xiiTuba Kocatürk and Benachir MedjdoubPart 1 11 Of sails and sieves and sticky tape 3Bryan Lawson2 Distributed perspectives for intelligent conceptual design 16Volker Mueller3 Distributed intelligence or a simple coherent mental model? 27Chris J. K. Williams and Roly Hudson4 Sharing intelligence: The problem of knowledge atrophy 36Peter BrandonPart 2 495 Pedagogical frameworks for emergent digital practices in architecture 51Brent Allpress6 Emergence and convergence of knowledge in building production: Knowledge-based design and digital manufacturing 71Eduardo Lyon7 Artifact and affect: Open-ended strata of communication 99Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger8 Digital tools for creative hinges 106Sean HannaPart 3 1239 The effects of integrated BIM in processes and business models 125Arto Kiviniemi10 Integrated building design for production management systems 136Rita Cristina Ferreira11 Flexibility, semantics and standards 154Robin Drogemuller and John H. Frazer12 Examples of distributed intelligence on large-scale building lifecycle projects 176Martin RiesePart 4 19913 Rapid practice expansion through strategic design computation 201Cristiano Ceccato14 Algorithmic modelling, parametric thinking 213Neil Katz15 Interview with the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG): The dynamic coordination of distributed intelligence at Foster and Partners 232Hugh Whitehead, Xavier de Kestelier, Irene Gallou and Tuba Kocatürk16 Interview with Lars Hesselgren, Director PLP Research 247Lars Hesselgren and Benachir Medjdoub17 Geometry, topology, materiality: The structural parameters in a collaborative design approach 252Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann Index 260