“How we build our world is changing. A revolution is underway in making and building art and architecture, with technology now allowing us to create and make with an unprecedented freedom. ”
- Ralph Parker RIBA - Price & Myers
THE NEW ART OF MAKING
At the centre of this change is the ‘designer-maker’; a cross-disciplinary master craftsman, who fuses sophisticated digital design tools and computerised fabrication with industrial, architectural and engineering expertise to define new ways of working with traditional materials - wood, stone, steel and glass.
This emerging practice is digital craftsmanship – a radical new practice of rendering sculptural form, blurring the line between artist, designer and maker.
The New Art Of Making exhibition charts the evolution of digital creativity and fabrication over a sequence of recent collaborations featuring key groundbreaking projects and major sculptural commissions.
Advances in computer-controlled fabrication have closed the gap between the drawing board and the real world. The development of advanced digital design and production techniques means that instead of constructing our buildings, bridges and sculptures from a set of pre-defined pieces -bricks, girders, windows - we can now manufacture our own lego® kit for each and every project.
By designing each piece specifically to the project requirements, we can minimize wasteful mass production and create almost any shape imaginable. Buildings become sculpture, and sculpture is set free to explore form at the limits of imagination.
Located at the point where architecture, engineering and fabrication converge with digital technology, The New Art of Making describes this new model of ‘digital craftsmanship’.
‘Correct and Magnificent …forms assembled in light.’ - Le Corbusier
Critical essay by Jean Wainwright
Commissioned by Futurecity
Project Credits:
Curator:
Futurecity
Futurecity Project Manager:
Jennifer Barnes
Structural Engineer:
Price & Myers Geometrics
Architect & Exhibition designer:
Ralph Parker RIBA - Price & Myers
Graphic design:
Ralph Parker RIBA - Price & Myers
