What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today non-standard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterized by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customization of the city is set to have imminent and far-reaching practical consequences for the rest of the developing and developed world.
| ISBN: | 9781118915646 |
| Publication date: | 20th November 2015 |
| Author: | Tom Verebes |
| Publisher: | Academy Press an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Series: | Architectural Design |
| Genres: |
City and town planning: architectural aspects |