We live in an era of making. If the proliferation of digital fabrication labs and 3D-printed goods hasn't made it obvious, then the following nine winning projects in this year's R+D Awards will show how craftsmanship is evolving and thriving in the computer age. The entrants' desire to innovate and captivate an often stoic design community was not lost on jurors Gerardo Salinas, AIA, Mimi Love, and Bill Kreysler (see their bios on page 96), who culled the winners from more than 100 submissions. But exploiting today's increasingly advanced and accessible technologies can only go so far without a greater purpose. The six awards, two citations, and one honorable mention stood out for their potential to inject architecture with intelligence, upgrade longstanding manufacturing and construction methods, and overhaul entire streetscapes and cities. "They weren't only about making things," Love says of the winning projects. "They were also about solving human-scale problems."
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