Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1987
Celestino Soddu, Medieval Towns Generative Variations
Based on the paintings of Simone Martini and other Italian masters, the Italian professor and architect’s project consisted of “typical Italian Medieval Towns” algorithmically and serially generated. The designs were part of Soddu’s longstanding fascination with the “ideal city” and his belief that computers and generativity could augment human creativity.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Soddu, Celestino. "Generative Design." GASATHJ: Generative Art Science and Technology Hard Journal, 29 March 2012.
People
Celestino Soddu, Simone Martini
Movements
generative art
Filed under
- Ideas
- architecture, creativity, Generative Architecture, generative art, ideal city
- Technologies
- algorithms
- People
- Celestino Soddu, Simone Martini
- Works
- Medieval Towns Generative Variations
- Places
- Italy
Echoes across time
- 2014 · Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art by McCormack et al.
- 1964 · First Piece of Computer Art Criticism by Arnold Rockman and Leslie Mezei
- 1917 · Composition with Lines by Piet Mondrian