A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Mass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic
How has the impetus to standardise diverged and interacted with the impulse to customise over time? Architect and architectural historian Martin Bressani, who is Professor and Director at the School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, describes how until the late Medieval period the fabric of Western towns remained highly customised. This was a situation that was only overturned with the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the desire to create ceremonial backdrops, which demonstrated ‘classical regularity’ on a grand scale. The path towards standardisation and Modernism, though, remained in no way linear; Modernism being at least in part a response to the monumental, but overtly bourgeois ornamental forms of Baron Hausmann's Second Empire Paris.
Mass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic
How has the impetus to standardise diverged and interacted with the impulse to customise over time? Architect and architectural historian Martin Bressani, who is Professor and Director at the School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, describes how until the late Medieval period the fabric of Western towns remained highly customised. This was a situation that was only overturned with the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the desire to create ceremonial backdrops, which demonstrated ‘classical regularity’ on a grand scale. The path towards standardisation and Modernism, though, remained in no way linear; Modernism being at least in part a response to the monumental, but overtly bourgeois ornamental forms of Baron Hausmann's Second Empire Paris.
Mass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic
Bressani, Martin (author)
Architectural Design ; 85 ; 18-23
2015-11-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Familistère , Henri IV , Dubai Municipality , Renaissance , Plan Voisin , Versailles , Michael Hays , Liciano Laurana , Charles Fourier , Place Royale (now Place des Vosques) , Claude Chastillon , New Harmony community , ‘urban chaos’ , Clothilde Caillé‐Lévesque , Dubai Marina , Buttes‐Chaumont Park , Phalanstery , Zhongyuan Dai , ‘mass‐customised’ , Second Empire , Ancien Régime , Lawrence Grossberg , Ludwig Hilberseimer , Lu Wan , Paris , United Arab Emirates , Robert Owen , Jean‐Baptiste , Le Corbusier , Aaron Sprecher , McGill University , Jean‐Charles Alphand , Indiana , Grossstadt Architektur , Exposition Universelle , Baron Haussmann
The Design Implications of Mass Customisation
| British Library Online Contents | 2001
From Mass Customisation to Design ‘Democratisation’
| Wiley | 2015
Mass Customisation and the Manufactured Module
| British Library Online Contents | 2006