Chris Bosse 是 澳大利亞建築設計事務所 PTW 的主持建築師,曾設計主導 2008北京奧運水立方游泳中心 。 Chris Bosse is a German born architect, resident in Sydney. He was a key designer of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre that was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Digital Origami Text: Chris Bosse, PTW architects An ancient Japanese proverb says: "If you meet a person that is able to make many items of different shape by folding up simple sheets of paper, don't think it is trivial, but try to learn.」 The 「first wave」 of digital architecture hit the world in the mid nineties. 90 percent of all final projects at my faculty were hand-drafted on tracing paper and out of balsa wood. Three years later, for my masters project, 90 percent of my fellow projects were digital. The digital revolution happened fast. However, with this first wave, there was no gravity, nothing for the senses and very little constraints. Thus architecture divided between the digital visionaries and the 『real' architects who build. In tod...