Beyond digital : design and automation at the end of modernity / Mario Carpo.

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Carpo, Mario, author.

Title & Author:

Beyond digital : design and automation at the end of modernity / Mario Carpo.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

199 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ways of Making -- The Future of Automation: Designers Redesign Robotics -- A Tale of Two Sciences, or the Rise of the Anti-Modern Science of Computation -- The Post-Human Chunkiness of Computational Automation -- Epilogue: Being Post-Digital.

Summary:

"An analysis of recent developments in computer-based design and production in architecture"-- Provided by publisher
Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In Beyond Digital, Mario Carpo reviews the long history of the computational mode of production, showing how the merger of robotic automation and artificial intelligence will stop and reverse the modernist quest for scale. Today's technologies already allow us to use nonstandard building materials as found, or as made, and assemble them in as many nonstandard, intelligent, adaptive ways as needed: the microfactories of our imminent future will be automated artisan shops.

ISBN:

9780262545150 (paperback)
0262545152 (paperback)
(electronic publication)
9780262373395
(electronic book)
9780262373401

Subject:

Architecture Data processing.
Architecture Computer-aided design.
Architecture Informatique.
Architecture Conception assistée par ordinateur.
ARCHITECTURE General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318229
Call No.: 318229
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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