Is digital design in architecture - as Mario Carpo suggests in his article on pp 56-61 of this issue - really 'losing its innovative edge - even its capacity to reinvent itself? In the last 10 years, he writes, this area 'has been repeating arguments that for the most part are 20 years old'. One might respond that we get bored too quickly, and that the demand for perpetual newness does not allow room for productive lingering and burrowing into certain refrains and pursuits. Those practices that have continued to pursue digital techniques as an explicit focus of their experimentation - such as Marc Fornes, biothing, kokkugia and supermanoeuvre (a few of the finer examples) - seem to be on a pathway towards increased fidelity: greater refinement, more sophisticated techniques, increased intricacy, and so on.
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