In My Craft and Sullen Art or Sketching the Future by Drawing on the Past

Whether made digitally or by hand, remotely or locally, realisation of architecture is still reliant on the agency of dialogue from a practice that stems from oral exchange. Professor Michael Stacey, a global figure in the development of digital fabrication in architecture, and author of Component Design, draws from his broad experience in manufacturing, practice and research. This grounded text is a prompt for architectural practice to adopt digital fabrication technologies with clear reference and understanding of their origins and, thus, redefine itself as a form of live research. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.