EAN: 9780262545150

BEYOND DIGITAL - MARIO CARPO TASCHENBUCH

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 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. 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  Beyond Digital offers a new modern
agenda for our post-industrial future.

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