Beyond Digital

Recasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world. 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 The post-industrial logic of computational manufacturing has been known and theorized for some time. By tracing its theoretical and technical sources, and reviewing the design theories that accompanied its rise, Carpo shows how the computational project, long under the sway of powerful antimodern ideologies, is now being recast by the urgency of the climate crisis, which has vindicated its premises--and by the global pandemic, which has tragically proven its viability. Looking at the work of a new generation of designers, technologists, and producers,

Product details

• Authors: Mario Carpo, Carpo Mario
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2023
• EAN: 9780262545150
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54515-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General, Graphical and digital media applications