Mass customization and design democratization / edited by Branko Kolarevic & José Pinto Duarte.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From massive to mass customization and design democratization / Branko Kolarevic and José Pinto Duarte -- Customering : the next stage in the shift to mass customization / B. Joseph Pine II -- Creating a sustainable mass customization business model / Frank Piller -- A craft it yourself future / Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael -- Massive customization / Marc Fornes -- Continuing toward extreme mass production / Greg Lynn -- Democratic design and daily objects / Philippe Starck -- Learning as it grows : the humanization of objects / Assa Ashuach -- Customizing process, democratizing design / Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler -- Metadesigning customizable houses / Branko Kolarevic -- Customizing mass housing : toward a formalized approach / José Pinto Duarte -- Interplay of design, technology, manufacturing, and business / Karl Daubmann -- The modern modular : the mass customization of the single-family home / Joseph Tanney -- Mass prefabrication : investigating the relationship between prefabrication and mass customization in architecture / Ryan E. Smith -- Future adaptive building : mass-customized housing for an aging population / John L. Brown -- Democratizing creativity / Christopher Sharples -- Sentience and the specificities of cities / Tom Verebes -- City science : toward a new process for creating high-performance, entrepreneurial communities / Kent Larson -- The physical implications of a mass-customization economy / Thomas Fisher.