Cyborg Craftsmanship: A Human-Machine Collaboration Future in Architecture

This paper begins with an analysis of “craftsman” and “tools.” On the one hand, it explores computer algorithms as the core technology of simulation, iteration, optimization, and fabrication, which was significantly involved in and changed architectural design, research, and practice. Meanwhile, it also points out that the intelligent design and construction tools are continually enhancing the thinking, building, and organizational capabilities of the human body, further developing into various fabrication techniques under the human-machine collaboration in the future. It is where the concept of “cyborg craftsmanship” comes. The human-machine collaboration system will empower architects and the whole industry, liberating greater creativity and accelerating the architecture production system upgrading.

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978-1-944214-31-9