ABSTRACT
Every technology has an in-built bias. Machine tools suggest orders, sequences, timings. The new spatial scalability, we would soon see as tools advanced, was paired with an even more powerful scalability in time: digital processes could be made massively parallel, opening the platforms, the models, to multiple hands and minds working and contributing at once, capable of expanding the moment of creation across multiple authors both internal and external to own studio, coordinating all into a single, purposeful workflow, and then collapsing that collectively generated and organized information into a single process, component, or construction. The idea of the master builder, the Renaissance professional who could demonstrate and apply expertise over the work from the first cut in the quarry to the last polish of the ornament, who could direct through that expertise an especially informed leadership of every craft and trade, had long held a romantic fascination.
