Video: WikiHouse co-founder Alastair Parvin at TED@London
YouTube Preview Image  Alastair Parvin, co-founder
of WikiHouse gave his TED Talk last week (one of the
many architecturally relevant talks at TED 2013). Although the
video of his latest talk is not yet available, to whet your
appetite we present you with his speech from last year at
@London. In it he explains the conditions of architectural and
material culture that led to the foundation of WikiHouse, an
open source database of house designs that can be manufactured
with a cutter and assembled in a day.  Parvin says: “If design’s
great project in the 20th century was actually the
democratization of consumption… I believe design’s great project
in the 21st century is the democratization of production.” Last
year, the WikiHouse project was one winner of TED’s City 2.0
Awards.  Cite: Stott, Rory. "Video: WikiHouse co-founder
Alastair Parvin at TED@London" 06 Mar 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed
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