Embedded Seriality: An Anti-Stylistic Reading of Current Modes of Code, Design and Culture

[Introduction]: "Technological advancements typically induce paradigm shifts that reverberate across many disciplines. Architecture is in a moment of such transition both in practice and in the academy. The past 30 years of technological progress changed the relationship between architect designer and design process at an unprecedented rate. The discipline was not prepared for such accelerated movement, and was unsuccessful at expanding its theoretical frameworks to engage with technology in a meaningful way. The unsynchronized advancement of technology and theory became the source of our present condition that is currently dominated by two camps—broadly defined here as computation-based design, and design informed by history and theory; these two camps rarely challenge or contaminate one another."