Ditching the Dinosaur Sanctuary: Seventeen Years On

In his paper, ‘Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary’ (Architectural Design, August 1969), the author brought architects’ attention to the computerized, flexible production machinery then being introduced into the machine tool and other industries. Similar production technology, the author had argued, could in principle be used to revolutionize the building industry, doing away with the need for standardization, and negating many of the ideological assumptions underlying the industrialized building movement.