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id
acadia03_063
authors
Wai, Lindsay and Daubmann, Karl
year
2003
title
Variations + Versioning
source
Connecting >> Crossroads of Digital Discourse [Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture / ISBN 1-880250-12-8] Indianapolis (Indiana) 24-27 October 2003, p. 435
A major holdover from the previous culture of making is that of repetition and modularity. It is true that it is always cheaper and faster to make the same part, component, or building over and over again but then again cheaper is not necessarily better.