Manufacturing Digital Architecture

This paper addresses recent digital technological advances in design and fabrication and the unprecedented opportunities they created for architectural practices by allowing design, fabrication and construction of very complex forms that were until recently very difficult and expensive to design, produce, and assemble using traditional construction technologies. The paper also addresses the development of repetitive non-standardized building systems through digitally controlled variation and serial differentiation, i.e. mass-customization, in contrast to the industrial-age paradigms of prefabrication and mass production