Moving Parts: Modular Architecture in a Flat World
Thursday, Jan 19, 20176 PM - 9 PMEDT
| AKDO Showroom: 22 W 21st Street
New York, NY, USRelated
FUTURE OF CONSTRUCTION: A lecture series presented by CTBUH and Autodesk to explore innovations in the construction industry. The demands on construction have changed rapidly due to urbanization, sustainability, population growth, project complexity, and new technologies. The construction industry has responded with new trends that embrace innovative technologies, construction methods, financing models and more. This series will explore the most compelling trends that are poised to change the way that we build.
Manufacturing Buildings: This is the second in a series of lectures exploring modular construction through intermodal modular architecture. There is an urgent need to transform the way we design and build our cities that will bring down costs, and that will attract people at all income levels to live in dense transit-based urban neighborhoods.
Premised on an urgent need to transform our cities to be more affordable, the next generation of modular architecture will be geared to global production and distribution, and will adopt advanced industrial methods of manufacturing. The promise of modularity – efficiency and economies of scale – will perhaps for the first time be realized.
The ramifications of this shift to a globally distributed modular building system are far-reaching. New modes of project delivery will engender new relationships among architects, planners, developers, builders, and public officials. For New York City, this means a new approach to housing at all income levels, which could then inform a global solution.
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