Architectural Record: Looking at materials, what is the biggest challenge for architects in the next decade?
In the United States we have forgotten how to make things. I’m working on a project now where stone is quarried in the Northeast and i s being outsourced to India for fabrication. I n architecture schools, there is great interest in materials, but many programs still don’t have the facilities or the pedagogy to really get traction on teaching an embodied-material savoir-faire architecture. A key challenge is bridging the gap between the now- robust world of 3D modeling and the world of prototyping and digital fabrication.
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