Abstract
The article focuses on morphogenetic design using IT tools and their application in architectural design. The generative and creative potential of IT media has opened a new dimension in architectural design, especially in architecture aimed at imitating the works of Nature, its form-forming processes, behaviors, or ecosystems. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, new applications of generative tools for architecture were made available, based on systems and mechanisms occurring in Nature, bringing designers closer to creating architecture consistent with the natural environment, not only in terms of visuality, but also in terms of the functioning of the building based on the model of a living organism. The biomimetic approach to designing architectural objects and their complexes is currently moving to a higher level of material, structural, and performative integration. It presents what morphogenesis is and its role in the creation of a new organism, as well as other emergent phenomena occurring in Nature. The instrumentalization of these processes in the IT space is considered, as well as the application of design tools based on these processes. The tools that imitate form-forming processes occurring in Nature are presented: Cellular Automata, L-systems, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, as well as mathematical object-tools (a specific type of sets) such as: Fractals, Voronoi Diagrams, Shape Grammars, which can describe the geometric results of natural form-forming processes.