This address will be presented by Phil Bernstein, Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture.
Entitled Mind the Gap, the lecture will explore the fraught relationship between designers and builders in the Digital Age.
The fraught relationship between designers and builders can trace its origins to the Enlightenment, and many of the challenges and pathologies are apparent in the modern-day dynamics between architects and contractors.
While digital technologies create tantalising possibilities for innovation in industrialised construction, prefabrication, and modularity, those same tools will either enhance or even further erode the relationships, obligations, and profit margins of the players in the delivery systems of building, where data is the numerator and business models the denominator of the mathematics of modernised construction.
This talk will examine this equation and set out strategies for new value propositions of design and construction practice in our era of digital automation.