Log 36: ROBOLOG
Winter 2016
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?
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Contents
Paola Antonelli, Do Humans Dream of Robotic Seals?
Erin Besler & Ian Besler, Along the Frontier of Resolution
Jacob Comerci, The Robot of Kunsthal I
Thomas Daniell, Bug Eyes and Blockhead
Nicholas de Monchaux & Ken Goldberg, Death and Robots
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!
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