Mario Carpo: The Digital Turn in Architecture

- The gradual understanding the significance of ‘virtual reality and cyberspace’ as a replacement of ‘phenomena, existence and building’

- Most importantly, digital design has been presented by Carpo as a representation of postmodernism, in both architecture and ways of thinking.

- Stresses how newer technology allows designers to experiment and '(manipulate) curved lines directly on screen', easing the path for the customization of architecture immensely. Furthermore, Carpo reveals the interactivity digital design has provided to architecture, through the ability to adjust virtual environmental factors to simulate lighting, weather etc.

- Carpo reiterates Le Corbusier’s observation of our human disinterest in an older style of architecture ‘which has now been repeating itself’, and its reflective effect onto our way of thinking.

- Digital design has allowed for the mass production of 'variations and (the customization of) non-standards; Carpo explores Carhles Jenck's concept of 'nonlinearity', or the irregular patterns in nature/objects. This highlights the potential of software in architecture as our only means of replicating these patterns, as well as a more fluid/freeform or 'anti-industrial' architecture.

- Similar to Philippe Morel, Carpo interestingly addresses the subject of 'robots' and artificial intelligence as eventually being able to emulate