Larry Sass Lecture

Larry Sass is a professor of digital design at MIT. He worked on prefabricated houses for New Orleans. He is anti factory, his vision for digital fabrication is no factories and self guide assemblies. His design interest are to design and construct culturally sensitive community based design. His master thesis was African American Architecture. He says a green economy is not possible with old homes. He said problems in construction are errors in construction and imprecise measures = cost per square foot.

Ali Rahim reading

I liked this reading for a couple of reasons. It was not only interesting but informational. I learned about things I didn’t know even existed. Its basically that architecture would not be where is at today with technology. Technology has allowed us to become more efficient. But with technological advances we need feedback to allow us to advance even further and become efficient. The technology has only made the modeling and hand drawing more efficient for visualization and documenting. Now these computer programs allow us to not only design the building, but figure out structural engineering, fabrication, mechanical, electrical, and cost estimation all at once.
Another thing I learned from this was the technology that the Eameses used in the design and fabrication of their furniture. It was very interesting to see the techniques used to create the furniture. Different pieces of furniture were created through techniques discovered in different fields of work. The Eameses combined advances from their disciplines with their own inventions to make new technologies and techniques. They invented a device made out of items found around the house to form heated plywood into chairs.

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Ali Rahim Presentation

Reading abstract 1

The aide of computers advances in past years has led to many opportunities. New digital programs allow us to design and produce very complex forms that would have been very hard to produce without these programs. These technologies have also allowed the construction and assembly cost to go down. Architectural curvilinearity and contemporary architecture are due to the digital technology. The design and production of products today is completely different. Now these products are completely designed using digital technology. Without all the computer aided design technology the world would be a completely different place.