Week 9 Readings

Practice vs Project – III: Nonstandard and Versioning 


Non standard and Versioning explores architects and designers to a variety of different way as it creates an “open model of practice” these technologies become so important to us bringing forward the improvement on production of non-standardised products “new software opened a generative domain, an algorithmic culture opened geometries”(Rivka & Oxman 2014, p.17). Non-standard Architecture is trying to overtake the generalisation of computational to achieve the definite way of providing the conception and production process to architecture. Non-standard architecture evokes the notion of non-standard design shifting away on how architects and designers are using technologies but provides the possibilities of digital design and methods enhancing the possibilities for architects to designs complex forms “The appearance of non-standard based software where the modeling of the process becomes the process itself, introduced through cellular automation a material design based computation, an agent-based architecture which creates bridges to other disciplines” (Rivka & Oxman 2014, p.19).

From Mario Carpo point of view, he is tying to introduce the importance of technology to architecture, enabling a new way of thinking of the design process and procedure of the outcome ““shift the way architects and designers are using technology to expand” (Carpo 
2013, p.132). We can now see how versioning enabled us to move away from conventional design methods bringing us closer to the possibilities of architectural designs.

Reference list

•  Migayrou, F, The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism, in Rivka and Oxman R (ed), Theories of the Digital in Architecture 2014, pp.17-34.
•  Pasquarelli, H 2002, Versioning, Eroding the Barriers in M Carpo (ed), The Digital Turn in Architecture 2013, Wiley, pp. 146-157.