THE EBB AND FLOW OF DIGITAL INNOVATION

摘要

There was a time, not long ago, when architecture was at the forefront of digital innovation. For sure, architects and designers did not invent digital technology -they just adopted and adapted it, borrowing animation software from the film industry or CAD-CAM technology from aircraft makers, for example. But in the 1990s architects and designers gave visible form to the digital age. An unprecedented architectural experience, the new aesthetics of free form soon also became a source of technological education for all. Free form represented and symbolised a new techno-cultural environment where all the tenets of industrial Modernism had been jettisoned, and a new universe of differentiation, variation, and choice - which Postmodernism had advocated, but could not deliver - became possible, tangible, affordable and, some claim, even pleasurable.