Then he trained the villagers themselves to raise the walls, rather than bringing in a construction crew from the city. + 1The relationship between architecture and the specific hands that shaped it sits at the core of The Architecture of Craft: Handmade Stories in a Digital Age, ArchDaily's Monthly Topic for August. And as AI reshapes how buildings are conceived, does it push architecture closer to the hand that makes it, or further away? This article is part of the ArchDaily Topic: The Architecture of Craft: Handmade Stories in a Digital Age. Every month we explore a topic in-depth through articles, interviews, news, and architecture projects.