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Author(s) -
Leach Neil
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1979
Subject(s) - architecture , architectural engineering , focus (optics) , space (punctuation) , sociology , engineering , computer science , history , archaeology , physics , optics , operating system
Is the focus on mass customisation with its emphasis on generating architectural form misguided? Is the future of our cities instead more likely to be directed towards the capacity to accommodate informational systems and the possibilities that new technologies afford to redesign existing buildings? Architectural author, professor and guest‐editor of the Digital Cities (July/August 2009) and Space Architecture (November/December 2014) issues of AD, Neil Leach appeals to architects to turn away from their fixation with the material properties of the built environment and customise their own approaches to analysis and design to fully embrace the computational revolution that has taken place.