The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence

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Mario Carpo (Professor, The Bartlett School of Architecture) Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)

The Second Digital Turn

Design Beyond Intelligence

Mario Carpo (Professor, The Bartlett School of Architecture), Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
20 October 2017

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Architecture; History of architecture; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Writing Architecture

The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.

Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture.

But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way.

In The Second Digital Turn, Mario Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new kind of digital tools they have adopted-no longer tools for making but tools for thinking.

In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new technical logic of the digital age- digital mass-customization (the use of digital tools to mass-produce variations at no extra cost) has already changed the way we produce and consume almost everything, and the same technology applied to commerce at large is now heralding a new society without scale-a flat marginal cost society where bigger markets will not make anything cheaper.

But today, the unprecedented power of computation also favors a new kind of science where prediction can be based on sheer information retrieval, and form finding by simulation and optimization can replace deduction from mathematical formulas.

Designers have been toying with machine thinking and machine learning for some time, and the apparently unfathomable complexity of the physical shapes they are now creating already expresses a new form of artificial intelligence, outside the tradition of modern science and alien to the organic logic of our mind.

By: Mario Carpo (Professor The Bartlett School of Architecture)
Series edited by: Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9780262534024
ISBN 10: 0262534029
Series: Writing Architecture
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 20 October 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mario Carpo is Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, University College London. He is the author of Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory and The Alphabet and the Algorithm (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.

Reviews for The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence

The Second Digital Turn is a beautiful exposition of historical ideas. ancient debates, technological developments in art and curious personal anecdotes brought to light at the service of contemporary issues by a scholar of great reputation: Mario Carpo. -Review Architecture