The second digital turn : design beyond intelligence / Mario Carpo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carpo, Mario, author.

Series:

Writing architecture

Writing architecture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and technology.

Architecture--Information technology.

Architecture.

Architecture--Computer-aided design.

Computer-aided design.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new logic of digital design and fabrication. Digital mass-customization (the use of digital tools to mass-produce variations at no extra cost) has already changed the way we produce and consume almost everything. In this book, Mario Carpo suggests that the same technical logic, now applied to all kinds of immaterial objects and to commerce at large, is heralding a new society without scale, where bigger markets will not make anything cheaper. he early tools for digital design and production spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and marked architectural design for the last twenty years. But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new generation of digital tools they have adopted -- no longer tools for making but tools for thinking. Today's computation is so powerful and cheap that many data-compression technologies that humanity has carefully developed, nurtured, and honed over time may soon be abandoned.0.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Second Digital Turn 9

2.1 Data-Compression Technologies We Don't Need Anymore 19

2.2 Don't Sort: Search 23

2.3 The End of Modern Science 33

2.4 The New Science of Form-Searching 40

2.5 Spline Making, or the Conquest of Free Form 55

2.6 From Calculus to Computation: The Rise and Fall of the Curve 65

2.7 Excessive Resolution 70

2.8 The New Frontier of Alienation, and Beyond 79

3 The End of the Projected Image 99

3.1 Verbal to Visual 102

3.2 Visual to Spatial 104

3.3 The Technical and Cognitive Primacy of Flatness in Early Modern Art and Science 111

3.4 The Underdogs: Early Alternatives to Perspectival Projections 115

3.5 The Digital Renaissance of the Third Dimension 120

4 The Participatory Turn that Never Was 131

4.1 The New Digital Science of the Many 132

4.2 The Style of Many Hands 135

4.3 Building: Digital Agencies and Their Styles 140

5 Economies Without Scale: Toward a Nonstandard Society 145

5.1 Mass Production, Economies of Scale, Standardization 147

5.2 The Rise and Fall of Standard Prices 149

5.3 The Digital Mass-Customization of Social Practices 153

6 Postface: 2016 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262534024

0262534029

OCLC:

964698464