LARRY SASS LECTURE NOTES

-Culturally sensitive community-based design
-Digital fabrication as opposed to factory fabrication
-factories fail because the facility must be maintained. this includes energy and employment
costs.
-affordable design, the "Toyota" of architectural design
-Demand for new to replace old

Standardization
-Walter Gropius and Joseph Wachsmann
-standardization of parts as a failure because of requirement for professional installment
-example Kiernan-Timberlake (2004)
-pre-manufactured components leave no room for error during installment, and there is
always a marginal error

Use of CNC
-replaces need for a factory
-assembly does not require professional skill
-panels fuse together after exposure to the elements
-MoMA installment project
-withstood hurricane-strength winds
-built expediently
-minimal costs

his work is more an exploration of a building methodology and has less to do with formal considerations