1st Edition

Homing the Machine in Architecture

Edited By Galo Canizares, Zach Cohen Copyright 2024
322 Pages 20 Color & 188 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 20 Color & 188 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 20 Color & 188 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. To “home” a digital fabrication machine is to send it back to its origin point—a point that can be specified by the fabricator in advance of the fabrication process or by the defaults that are... Read more

Homing

Galo Canizares and Zach Cohen

Homebound

Theodora Vardouli

 

THE TECHNOLOGICAL

Lost and Found: In Search of a Process for Creating Productive Problems

Michael Szivos

Not Not Digital Fabrication Machines

Maria Yablonina

Beyond Optimization: Interaction as a Means to Resituate Digital Fabrication

Stefana Parascho

Wind-Up Architecture: An Interview with Marshall Prado

Dissimulated Origins: On Navels and Nozzles

Francesca Hughes

  

THE MATERIAL

The Ends of the Machine: From Technical Means to Architectural Beginnings

Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic

Working with Forests

Zachary Mollica

Ecotectonics: Using Digital Fabrication Towards Multispecies Design

Ehsan Baharlou

Failing Matters: An Interview with Skylar Tibbits

A Robot Named Heidegger

Mark Jarzombek

THE SOCIAL

Construction Cheat Codes

James Coleman and Nathan Barnes

Eco-Digital Construction in Africa: Decolonizing Performative Architecture from the African Fabbers Project to the Douala Cultural Hub

Paolo Cascone and Maddalena Laddaga

Machine Not Homed: Growth and Perspectives on Digital Fabrication Made in Latin America

Pablo C. Herrera

A Carrier Bag of Tools for Computational Feminism

Shelby Doyle

Situated Computations: An interview with Vernelle A. A. Noel

Beyond Default Thinking: A Conversation with Dr. Behnaz Farahi, Dr. Madeline Gannon, Mollie Claypool

Biography

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, common craft, which presently has a variety of commercial and residential construction projects in and around New York City.