Architecture Alumni Are Part of SPACE10 Lab Created by IKEA

Alumni Yuan Chieh Yang (Architecture ’15), Benas Burdulis (Architecture ’16), and Emil Froege (Architecture ’15) have been working on through the SPACE10 Lab created by IKEA. The architects came up with three divergent yet equally innovative solutions to address the fundamental issue that plagues digital production: an apparent lack of a “human touch.” In a Post-Fordist world increasingly dominated by customization, this investigation holds obvious importance for a company which deals primarily in mass-produced ready-to-assemble products; however, with its advocation for the infusion of dying classical craft techniques into the digital manufacturing process, the experiment could be meaningful for many other reasons.