‘The objective of the SmartGeometry Group,’ says Lars Hesselgren, ‘is to create the intellectual foundations for a more profound way of designing. Change can only be additive, not subtractive, so SmartGeometry does not reject or deny existing, more informal or intuitive approaches to design. What SmartGeometry initially set out to achieve was to add to the established skills other complementary formal systems of notation that would allow for the creation and control of more complex geometry. We recognised that architecture, and design in the broadest sense, was critically dependent on geometry, but that a complete geometric tradition of the understanding of descriptive and construct geometry was being lost through lack of use in a bland planar and orthogonal minimalism or, indeed, through misuse by being excessively indulged at the “hyper” fringes of design. Against this background, the objective of the SmartGeometry Group was to reassert an understanding of geometry in design as more than an “experiential commodity”. Rather than being wilful and arbitrary, even the most complex geometry could provide a formal resolution of competing forces and requirements. It could suggest and resolve both structural efficiency and environmental sensitivity.’