{"product_id":"mass-customised-cities-isbn-9781118915646","title":"Mass-Customised Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial 05\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Guest-Editor 06\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Cities and Their Specificities: Standards, Customs and the Making of 21st-Century Urbanity 08\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic 18\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartin Bressani \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a Distinctive Urbanism: An Interview with Kenneth Frampton 24\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiesian Grids and the Domain of Ink 32\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElena Manferdini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStandardising Heterogeneity: Public Housing and the Absent(ed) Architect 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Mass Customisation to Design ‘Democratisation’ 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBranko Kolarevic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Modelling Complexity and Urban Form 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eM Christine Boyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamsung Raemian Housing Masterplan, Haan River, Seoul, Korea: Contemporary Architecture Practice 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHina Jamelle and Ali Rahim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(In)formational Cities 64\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Leach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation: Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Huang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShanghai Lilong Tower Urbanism, Shanghai, China: Rocker-Lange Architects 76\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristian J Lange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePermanence and Change: An Interview with Mark Burry 80\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald Bates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Repulse Bay Complex, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong: Davidclovers 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Erdman and Clover Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatalytic Urbanism: The Role of Customised Design Solutions in Delivering Transformational Urban Change 92\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElad Eisenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecond Development Zone, Umekita Area, Osaka, Japan: OCEAN CN Consultancy Network 100\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngineering Urban Complexity: Bespoke Integrated Design 104\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRob May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchi-Union Architects, City of Breeze, Shenzhen Bay, Shenzhen, China 110\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip F Yuan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnological Transitions, Industrial Innovations and the Marching Chinese Urban Revolution: An Interview with Jerry Ku and Philip Vernon of E-Grow, Shanghai 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutomated Diversity: Gramazio Kohler Research New Morphologies of Vertical Urbanism 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJan Willmann, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCounterpoint Cities on the Edge of Chaos 128\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColin Fournier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors 134\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Creative Director of OCEAN CN, a Hong Kong-based design consultancy network. He is Associate Professor of Architecture, and former Associate Dean (Teaching \u0026amp; Learning) at the University of Hong Kong. Until January 2009, Tom Verebes was co-Director of the acclaimed post-professional masters' level Design Research Lab, at the Architectural Association in London, where he had taught since 1996. He has directed the AA Shanghai Summer School for nine consecutive years (2007-2015).?The design work of Verebes' practice and teaching has been exhibited internationally at over 50 venues, and he has contributed to over 140 publications. His recent publications include \u003cem\u003eMasterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first Century\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2013), \u003cem\u003eNew Computational Paradigms in Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e (Tsinghua University Press, 2012), and a 368-page monograph and \u003cem\u003eDRLTEN: A Design Research Compendium\u003c\/em\u003e (AA Publications, 2008). He has lectured on his work across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.  \u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989578432741,"sku":"NP9781118915646","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118915646.jpg?v=1761784673","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mass-customised-cities-isbn-9781118915646","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}