Reading 3 Response: Jay Tyan

I found it a bit hard to follow this essay as a whole, so I took it in small chunks.  First, the author mentions about many examples where it is important to differentiate model, prototype, and archetype in the design process.  I can't help but relate this to my Hot wheels-flash drive projects again.  Because each car is different, the final product serves as each of the three things throughout production.  Either that or the prototype and model do not exist, but that wrongly implies that experimentation is nonexistent, which is not true.   I guess this is why hand-making things from scratch is so extremely inefficient and often yields inconsistent results.

Re-skilling of the human worker, as was addressed in class, was also mentioned in the essay.  Where robots are usually used to do precise tasks, the modelers of the Sagrada Familia did it the other way around, using the robots to lop off the big chunks of stone while the masons fine-tuned the curves.