FACTORY In The FOREST|| by Design Unit Architects

We often describe the history of architecture as a story of advancement—new materials, new technologies, greater efficiency. But that narrative assumes improvement as its default outcome. What if the transformation of architecture followed a different logic altogether? Consider the shift from load-bearing masonry to curtain walls, from articulated façades to planar envelopes, from rooms shaped by structure to spaces regulated by systems. Buildings did not simply become “better versions” of what