Various architects today are investigating the digital tools of industrial design, engineering, and manufacturing in search of ways to improve processes in the fragmented construction industry. For many reasons — the structure of the industry, the physical size and complexity of buildings, the typically low design repetition factor, and a general cultural conservatism — the design process and products of architecture lag behind those of the manufacturing industries in several ways. — Published 2003.0101
In this article, architect and teacher Larry Barrow presents a perspective on the importance of communication media.
Information technology (IT) per se is a modern obsession, but the importance of information exchange in accomplishing architecture is as old as recorded history. — Published 2001.0725
Le Corbusier visited the Rogue River Ford factory in 1935; that evening he spoke at Cranbrook Academy:
This is the dramatic conflict, which is strangling architecture, which causes building to remain off the roads of progress. In the Ford factory, everything is collaboration, unity of views, unity of purpose, a perfect convergence of the totality of gestures and ideas. — Published 2001.0411
