Surface Consiousness | Between Surface and Substance

Production and Fabrication are obstacles which must be surmounted in the transition from digital object to physical artifact.  The work of Mark Burry is at the forefront of that transition.  Burry proposes a quote by Saarinen in which he cautions architects not to "conform to any particular style as it reduces the art of composition to rule-based decision making, and at work , downgrades architects to informed copyists."

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/33/11G69/index.xml?section=announcements

Candela ,  A double curved surface constructed of a grid of straight segments

While reading the Burry article this image of a Candela building floated through my mind.  How can the technique of constructing a curved surface be changed through use of digital methods?

It is interseting to note the suggestion that within fabrication lies the potential for substance, without it perhaps the work is mere image and lacks a certain meaning or truth within the surface.