Review: Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity

Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity Mario Carpo. Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2023, 208 pp. , 30 b/w illus. 29. 95 (paper), ISBN 9780262545150 Daniel Cardoso Llach Daniel Cardoso Llach Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 249–250. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 249 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 249–250. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 249 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search As a historian and theorist of digital architecture, Mario Carpo is well known for codifying what has become a standard periodization of architects' embrace of digital tools. His previous works narrate two historical turns in architectural practice: first, the adoption of computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling tools since the 1990s; and second, the embrace (by some architects) of computational tools that invite a degree of uncertainty into the design process through different algorithmic techniques. In other words, an evolution from automated drafting tables into self-organizing systems and "big data. "1 In his newest book, Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity, he tests the ability of this historiographic scaffolding to withstand contemporary socioecological concerns, along with changes in digital tools resulting from the adoption of data-intensive computational methods—the heterogeneous landscape of algorithmic techniques generically referred to as "AI. " In doing so, he grapples with some of. . . You do not currently have access to this content.