Machines for Making Architecture

Computational automation, which is today everywhere,can be abstracted from its technologicalmanifestations and considered as a conceptualstructure comprised of three elements: division oflabor, systematization of rules, notation of instructions.By applying this logic of automation to twoseemingly disparate architectural practices, thispaper argues that they are unified by a primary concernwith working methods, part of a broader shiftin the discipline towards a critical understanding ofthe computational tools used to make architecturetoday. In a context of pervasive automation, theprojects discussed here suggest a turn away fromthe use of automated tools for instrumental endsand towards work on the material and conceptualstructures of computational automation itself.

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6