We are in the midst of a period of major change in the production conditions in architecture. Over the last 20 years it has become possible to industrially manufacture individual, non-standardised elements according to their digital delineation. As a result, architects have started to integrate fabrication as a generative paradigm into the design process. During the period of early Modernism in architecture there were similar tendencies, for example the Bauhaus School's principle 'art and technology - a new entity'. This resulted in an architecture that exploited the possibilities of industrial production to achieve satisfactory design standards, regarding both functional and aesthetic aspects. It found an expression for the possibilities of the machine age and its control over fabrication information which was repetitive and standardised.
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