Aristotelian Form in Morphogenetic Design (Origin of Form in Morphogenetic Design)

Form is among the most widely used and primary concepts in architecture that has gone through a revolution through time. It is used in every architecture design method and every style, yet its characteristics are not well understood. Despite many studies in architecture design method of generating form, it fails to consider the concept and meaning of form that raises questions in the meaning of the architecture itself. Therefore, this paper aims to gain the meaning of form in morphogenetic architecture design within the framework of its theory to answer the question of the meaning of form and its origins are. By using the qualitative research method, the attention was focused on the concept of form in morphogenetic architecture and what was said to be its origins (natural sciences). What this method shared was that in digital morphogenesis architecture the concept of form gets its meaning from natural sciences specially biology despite the fact that the concept of form in biology has its roots in Aristotle’s philosophy. Taken together, these findings suggest that the origin of Form in morphogenetic architecture is of Aristotle’s notion hylomorphism origins and there is a direct relation between these two that surprisingly is ignored in architecture studies.