The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. In The Second...
Mario Carpo is Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, University College London. He is the author of Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory and The Alphabet and the Algorithm (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.
Carpo takes the reader on a critically considered and well-informed expedition beyond the horizon of materiality, to a land ruled from the bottom up―a place without any need for scale or standards as we have known them. The book is beyond Cartesian and beyond digital.
―Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of the MIT Media Lab; author of Being Digital"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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