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Crisis! What Crisis? Retooling for Mass Markets in the 21st Century
From his base in Southeast Asia, Tom Verebes, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), asks what the hardcore realities are for robotics in architecture in this new ‘Asian Century’. At a time when China strives to accommodate 10 million new urban citizens each year by rolling out high‐rise residential blocks with standardised serial production techniques, what hope is there that the homogeneous Chinese city will apply robotic tools of mass customisation for the construction of distinctive, rather than generic structures?
Crisis! What Crisis? Retooling for Mass Markets in the 21st Century
From his base in Southeast Asia, Tom Verebes, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), asks what the hardcore realities are for robotics in architecture in this new ‘Asian Century’. At a time when China strives to accommodate 10 million new urban citizens each year by rolling out high‐rise residential blocks with standardised serial production techniques, what hope is there that the homogeneous Chinese city will apply robotic tools of mass customisation for the construction of distinctive, rather than generic structures?
Crisis! What Crisis? Retooling for Mass Markets in the 21st Century
Verebes, Tom (author)
Architectural Design ; 84 ; 126-133
2014-05-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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