Log 36 Robolog

Description

Guest edited by architect Greg Lynn, Log 36: ROBOLOG explores the challenges and potentials posed to architecture by the rapidly accelerating field of robotics. Tossing aside the usual fabrication-focused discourse around robots, the 23 contributors to ROBOLOG investigate topics ranging from hyperrealistic robotic drag queens to machine vision to buildings that move. In addition to a collection of thought-provoking essays, this issue includes conversations with Elizabeth Diller, Nicholas de Monchaux and Ken Goldberg, and Chuck Hoberman. Rather than providing easy answers or touting cutting-edge technologies, ROBOLOG offers provocations to both architects and theorists. Robotic sensors, actuators, and networks have fundamentally transformed the world around us. What will architecture choose to do with them?

CONTENTS

• Paola Antonelli, Do Humans Dream of Robotic Seals? Preview the article
• Erin Besler & Ian Besler, Along the Frontier of Resolution, Preview the article
• Jacob Comerci, The Robot of Kunsthal I
• Thomas Daniell, Bug Eyes and Blockhead
• Nicholas de Monchaux & Ken Goldberg, Death and Robots, Preview the article
• Cynthia Davidson, Moving Parts: A Conversation with Elizabeth Diller
• Adam Fure, Meat Helmet
• Chuck Hoberman & Greg Lynn, Transforming Geometries
• Greg Lynn, Giant Robots
• Güvenç Özel, Toward a Postarchitecture
• Antoine Picon, Free the Robots! Preview the article
• François Roche & Camille Lacadée, MMYST vs. concrete[i]land
• Fred Scharmen, Home Tweet Home
• Alex Schweder, The Sound and the Future
• Chelsea Spencer & Johannes Staudt, Après Mies Le Déluge
• Jordan Squires, The Turk
• Patrick Tresset, Sketches by Paul-I
• Andrew Witt, Cartogramic Metamorphologies; or, Enter the RoweBot
• Liam Young, An Atlas of Fiducial Landscapes: Touring the Architectures of Machine Vision

152 pages, ills colour & bw / 17 x 24 cm / English