Daniel Cardoso Llach
Description: Industries of Architecture
All too often architectural theorists, historians and designers side-line the industrial, technical and socio-economic contexts in which building is constituted or maintain that these are not the proper concerns of architecture, even when acknowledging the limits and possibilities set for architecture’s production in advanced capitalism.
As a result, the developments with the greatest impact on the design and production of architecture are left to technical, economic and practice management discourses of building. Although the architectural humanities has recently shown interest in new technologies of digital fabrication (often celebrating the apparently closer relationship of the design process to realisation these developments bring) or in questions around life cycle analysis, embodied energy and ecologies of design, there are scores of o
How are new technologies and techniques from BIM to robots and smart materials changing the production of buildings and the roles and environments of architects, constructors and users? How are ‘immaterial’ forces such as law and regulation materialised in building and with what effects? How and in what ways does risk management or the requirement for comfort or the performance imperative transform materials, practices and the possibilities of design? If we are to understand the transformations in architect
Daniel Cardoso Llach