{"product_id":"beyond-digital-isbn-9780262545150","title":"Beyond Digital","description":"\u003cb\u003eRecasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMass 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 \u003ci\u003eBeyond Digital\u003c\/i\u003e, Mario Carpo reviews the long history of the computational mode of production, showing how the merger of robotic automation and artificial intelligence will stop and reverse the modernist quest for scale. Today’s technologies already allow us to use nonstandard building materials as found, or as made, and assemble them in as many nonstandard, intelligent, adaptive ways as needed: the microfactories of our imminent future will be automated artisan shops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe post-industrial logic of computational manufacturing has been known and theorized for some time. By tracing its theoretical and technical sources, and reviewing the design theories that accompanied its rise, Carpo shows how the computational project, long under the sway of powerful antimodern ideologies, is now being recast by the urgency of the climate crisis, which has vindicated its premises—and by the global pandemic, which has tragically proven its viability. Looking at the work of a new generation of designers, technologists, and producers, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Digital\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new modern agenda for our post-industrial future.1 Ways of Making 1\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Hand-Making 4\u003cbr\u003e1.2 Mechanical Machine-Making 6\u003cbr\u003e1.3 Digital Making 12\u003cbr\u003e1.4 Beyond the Anthropocene: A New Economy without Scale 16\u003cbr\u003e1.5 The Collapse of the Modern Way of Making 20\u003cbr\u003e1.6 The Teachings of the Pandemic 24\u003cbr\u003e2 The Future of Automation: Designers Redesign Robotics 35\u003cbr\u003e2.1 Florence, 1450: The Invention of Notational Work 39\u003cbr\u003e2.2 America, 1909-1913: Notational Work Goes Mainstream 42\u003cbr\u003e2.3 Taylor's Reinforced Concrete as a Social Project 47\u003cbr\u003e2.4 The Automation of Notational Work 52\u003cbr\u003e2.5 First Steps toward Post-Notational Automation 63\u003cbr\u003e3 A Tale of Two Sciences, or The Rise of the Anti-Modern Science of Computation 79\u003cbr\u003e3.1 The Two Sciences 82\u003cbr\u003e3.2 Modern Architecture and Postmodern Complexity 93\u003cbr\u003e3.3 Architects, Computers, and Computer Science 94\u003cbr\u003e3.4 Degenerate Complexism and the Second Coming of AI 112\u003cbr\u003e3.5 The Limits of AI 2.0 118\u003cbr\u003e3.6 Machine Learning and the Automation of Imitation 120\u003cbr\u003e3.7 Sorry: There Won't Be a Third Digital Turn Driven by AI 126\u003cbr\u003e4 The Post-Human Chunkiness of Computational Automation 129\u003cbr\u003e4.1 Mechanical Assembly as the Style of Dissent 132\u003cbr\u003e4.2 Modernist Modularity, Postmodernist Collage, and Deconstructivist Aggregation 140\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Being Post-Digital 155\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 163\u003cbr\u003eNotes 165\u003cbr\u003eIndex 191“Tracing a precise historical arc with ease and humor, Carpo carries us to the threshold of a future where automation and computation enhance culture, climate, and the collective, rather than the coffers of the 1%.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sarah M. Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A comprehensive critical history of the computer within the architectural discipline, this book not only helps to demystify terms often used and abused, but more importantly places them within the context of architectural debates that have defined us over the past several centuries.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nader Tehrani, Professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Thanks to \u003ci\u003eBeyond Digital \u003c\/i\u003earchitecture is at last back in the hands of the people.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Kengo Kuma, Architect; Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Automation\" has fascinated and perplexed designers for centuries. Do we automate technology or does technology automate us? The rise of computation made it easy to think that automation was something newly invented, but as Mario Carpo shows, automation may be something that design \u003ci\u003ediscovered\u003c\/i\u003e. Telling a new history through the lens of architecture, he brilliantly shows how stylized function and functionalized style made possible the automated aesthetics of the built environment.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMario Carpo is the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett-UCL in London and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in the Age of Printing\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eThe Second Digital Turn\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305243496677,"sku":"NP9780262545150","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545150.jpg?v=1767722519","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/beyond-digital-isbn-9780262545150","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}