Homing the Machine in Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781032283708 / Twarda / 2024 / 298 str.

Opis

Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Homebound  Part 1: The Technological  3. Lost and Found: In Search of a Process for Creating Productive Problems  4. Not Not Digital Fabrication Machines  5. Beyond Optimization: Interaction as a Means to Resituate Digital Fabrication  6. Wind-Up Architecture: An Interview with Marshall Prado  Part 2: The Material  8. The Ends of the Machine: From Technical Means to Architectural Beginnings  9. Working with Forests  10. Ecotectonics: Using Digital Fabrication Towards Multispecies Design  11. Failing Matters: An Interview with Skylar Tibbits  12. A Robot Named Heidegger  Part 3: The Social  13. Construction Cheat Codes  14. Eco-Digital Construction in Africa: Decolonizing performative architecture: from the African Fabbers project to the Douala Cultural  15. Machine not Homed: Growth and Perspectives on Digital Fabrication made in Latin America  16. A Carrier Bag of Tools for Computational Feminism  17. Situated Computation: An interview with Vernelle A. A. Noel  Epilogue  18. Beyond Default Thinking: A Conversation with Behnaz Farahi, Dr. Madeline Gannon, Mollie Claypool, Galo Canizares

O autorze

Galo Canizares is a designer, writer, and educator. His work blends absurdity, computation, world-making, simulation, and parafiction to address issues in technology and the built environment. He is currently researching the sociotechnical networks of relations between design’s softwarization and the architectural imagination. Galo was the recipient of the 2016-17 LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship, and in 2018 was awarded the Christos Yessios Visiting Professorship at The Ohio State University. His collaborative architectural practice, office ca, won the 2018 Ragdale Ring competition. He is currently assistant professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design where he directs the Critical Software Lab.

 

Zach Cohen is a designer, researcher, and educator. His research and teaching examine the ways in which architects can use digital fabrication technologies to reimagine both the immaterial and physical labor of architectural design. From 2019 to 2021, Zach was the Christos Yessios Visiting Assistant Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. Prior to his time at Knowlton, he was a Research Lead at the Self-Assembly Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zach is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union, where he teaches courses centered on what he calls “theoretical digital fabrication.” He is also the co-founder and partner of the Brooklyn-based architectural design practice, commoncraft, which presently has a variety of commercial and residential construction projects in and around New York City.