Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity

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, sho...