Beyond Digital

Mario 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 Architecture in the Age of Printing (2001), The Second Digital Turn (2017), and other books.

"An analysis of recent developments in computer-based design and production in architecture"--

1 Ways of Making 11.1 Hand-Making 41.2 Mechanical Machine-Making 61.3 Digital Making 121.4 Beyond the Anthropocene: A New Economy without Scale 161.5 The Collapse of the Modern Way of Making 201.6 The Teachings of the Pandemic 242 The Future of Automation: Designers Redesign Robotics 352.1 Florence, 1450: The Invention of Notational Work 392.2 America, 1909-1913: Notational Work Goes Mainstream 422.3 Taylor's Reinforced Concrete as a Social Project 472.4 The Automation of Notational Work 522.5 First Steps toward Post-Notational Automation 633 A Tale of Two Sciences, or The Rise of the Anti-Modern Science of Computation 793.1 The Two Sciences 823.2 Modern Architecture and Postmodern Complexity 933.3 Architects, Computers, and Computer Science 943.4 Degenerate Complexism and the Second Coming of AI 1123.5 The Limits of AI 2.0 1183.6 Machine Learning and the Automation of Imitation 1203.7 Sorry: There Won't Be a Third Digital Turn Driven by AI 1264 The Post-Human Chunkiness of Computational Automation 1294.1 Mechanical Assembly as the Style of Dissent 1324.2 Modernist Modularity, Postmodernist Collage, and Deconstructivist Aggregation 140Epilogue: Being Post-Digital 155Acknowledgments 163Notes 165Index 191