The golden Radio 

Architecture is a thing of art, a phenomenon of the emotions, lying outside questions of construction and beyond them.
The purpose of construction is to make things hold together; of architecture to move us.
The business of architecture is to establish emotional relationships by means of raw materials.

    Mass production 

‘Will the yard soon be a factory? There is talk of houses made in a mould by pouring in liquid concrete from above, completed in one day as you would fill a bottle.’

I watched this video in which a Chinese company speak about using a giant 3D printer to build homes. They have a printer that is 22ft, tall 30ft wide, 490ft long printer is able to print at least 10 homes a day.  This printer has been in development for12 years. The ink used to make the house is a mixture of special cement and glass fibre. I believe that the world and technology has become very fast moving and is remarkable what is possible now. I do not agree with this. The idea of creating and designing a building has all the art taken out of this. they will all be standard buildings, no individuality. I don’t believe this is a move forward for architecture as much as I believe it is for technology.

Author: livtextilesblog

I am a second year BA: Textiles student at Cardiff Met University

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