About
I am a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield in the UK, although much of the content of this blog was done while I was a PhD student at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. As part of my research, I’ve been exploring algorithmic systems to see how they are applied or could be applied to the design of landscapes, specifically in the context of landscape architecture.
This blog was initially created to provide tutorial exercises for a seminar I taught for for learning Grasshopper / Rhino. The examples start out pretty basic, although you may want to watch a few YouTube tutorials covering the basics if you are a complete beginner. Some ones I can highly recommend are done by Nick Senske at the UNCC School of Architecture which I found very helpful in learning the program myself! Look at some of the older tutorials first for basics. Some other excellent tutorials are at Mode Lab. They have very good, paid content, but also a few introductory courses for free!
Although I would love to help if you are having trouble with a particular example, my time is somewhat limited and I cannot offer much individual tutorial advice. So while I may respond to requests for help, the content in this blog is offered “as is.”
If you don’t know or are not trying to learn Grasshopper / Rhino, reading the text may prove of limited use, but hopefully you will still find some of the pictures to be pretty!
I am happy to share my work and images which I have created can be freely cited in non-commercial, academic publications. Please credit Joseph Claghorn and the name of this blog. If you want to let me know how any of the content has been used, please leave a comment under the appropriate material.
Hello,
My name is Omer and I am a masters in landscape architecture MLA student in Hochschule Anhalt, Bernburg.
I am very much interested in generative design specially its applications in landscape architecture. I am writing this to appreciate your work and encourage you to keep on posting your really creative experiments. They are very nice to for learning concepts of generative design.
I would like to stay in touch with you as we share the same interest! 🙂
Best regards,
Omer.
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Thanks Omer for your message! I was in Bernberg once for a conference a couple of years back…hope the blog is useful in your studies!
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Hello,
My name is Achraf and I am a masters student at the Architecture Association in London, my group and I are struggling with the algorithmic logic behind the design of our thesis, I was wondering if we could ask you some questions via email, we have seen your work and what we are trying to achieve is somewhat similar to the following examples you have on your website : GROWING AND BRANCHING LINES – EXAMPLE 10.4, RECURSIVE SUBDIVISION OF A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURFACE – EXAMPLE 8.3 (but flat topography), GROWING, BRANCHING, AND SCALING PATTERN – EXAMPLE 10.6,
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Hello Sir
Really thank you too much for the effort and information shared in your site
it is very interesting and useful, I like the way you categorize the subjects, the way you explain very simple and easy to learn
hope you keep going sir and thank you
Shehab eldin A. Mady
Architecture engineer
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Thank you for your kind words, Shehab!
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Hello, I’m trying to replicate your 10.4 tutorial, but I am having trouble getting to the Loop start to generate any content. I don’t have any errors or components that aren’t working but I’m not getting any output. Can I email you the script to look at?
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@Josclag,
Hi, well if you don’t remember me, I´m one of your blog follower and it happened that I have commented many things with you.
Anyway, I have made few things, and I would like to share it with you, how can I send it to you ?
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Hi Nader, I would be happy to see what you are working on. you can send me an email “josclag AT hotmail”
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Hi, just wanted to take the time to let you know how appreciative I am of your blog. It certainly is very useful for students like me who are new to GH, especially in this field.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the positive comment! 🙂
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Hi, I just want to tell you how happy I am I found your blog. As a second year architecture student, relatively new to grasshopper, this site has learned me so much more than any of my tutors could. I thank you for all the examples and the effort you put into each post, making them easy to understand and follow. Please keep doing what you are doing 🙂
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Thanks for your kind words! I hope to be able to start posting some more examples soon but as always, life gets busy sometimes. There should be some more examples coming soon though!
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Hi! I am wondering if you are still studying grasshopper and parametric design as a tool of landscape design? If you are, I am interested in how long you’ve been going so far. Because I am a grad student who just graduated and started my own career this June. And I’ve been trying to apply GH as tool to my practice which is really exciting.
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I am still studying it but am doing more with Python scripting these days and finishing my dissertation so I haven’t been on this blog in a while. May come back to add more soon! Good luck in your forthcoming Career!
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Thanks! You too! Glad to see you come back to this blog again
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I am writing from Hong Kong. I am currently practicing here and very interested in applying parametrics in Landscape Design. I am amazed by your work. Let’s keep this website running! I would love to donate some money!
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Thanks! I’m not taking donations since I am not working on this very often, but I will try and post new content once I finish my PhD
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hi there,
I am writing here because I couldn’t find your email address. I was wondering if I could use your tree images for a powerpoint presentation – for teaching purposes. Kind regards,
Agustin
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Hey man, great work! I am a student of landscape architeture in UFRJ Brasil. What is you full name? I need to put in master’s bibliography. I have used some of yours tutorial. Best, Tiago
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Hi there Im not sure if you are still actively using this site, but I would like to use some of your material for my Landscape Architecture Thesis. Would this be ok and who should I credit to be accurate?
Many Thanks!!
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Sorry this is very delayed but all the material I produce on this blog can be used directly and can be credited to Joseph Claghorn, generativelandscapes.wordpress.com.
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This is one of the best Grasshopper / Generative design blogs in the world ! Thank you so much for your work !
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Hi Joseph,this is Ben from China. You remember me? I’m still learning Grasshopper from you. I wish you have a fantastic career in Sheffield. Best regards!
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Thanks Ben and good to hear from you!
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Still very useful!
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Hi Joseph,
Just wanted to drop down some nice words on all of these great tutorials!! I think with these, I finally understood a lot of the gymnastics behind how some definitions actually worked instead of just copying them. Once again thank you so much for all of this!! (yes, people are still learning GH from here in 2022!!!!
Cheers!!!
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Hi!
I am studying architecture at the Oslo school of Architecture and Design and i really liked your work. Now Im doing a project and needed a sort of form for my concept, the “river” grasshopper script was amazing, thank you so much for your work!
Best regards, Ask Valde
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