ABSTRACT
Throughout the twentieth century, the regime of mass production had contributed substantively to the persistent legacy, and the accelerating proliferation of the ubiquitous uniformity of cities. In turn, the context of urbanization, especially in East Asia, is arguably the most inexhaustible as well as the most globalized era of city building ever to occur. The mass-customized cities issue of Architectural Design (AD), published in 2015, aimed to explicate the urban consequences of emerging technologies. It was indicative of a significant paradigm shift, beyond the scale of discrete one-off buildings, which continue to revolutionize the ways in which architecture can be conceived, practiced, and experienced. Confronting the problem of the sameness of cities, the remedial proposition of a mass-customized city directly provokes the ideation of choice and identity for a mass urban populace. In advances in computational design and fabrication technologies were propelled largely by the distributed democratization of the tools of nonstandard design.
