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We present the article “An Ontology of Robotic Architecture” that suggests “robotics in architecture is a budding area of exploration that needs to be framed, defined, and questioned.” The authors, Mahesh Daas and Andrew John Wit, examine “the relationship between robotics and architecture from an ontological standpoint. The article offers foundational frameworks and raises key questions to broadly define robotics in architecture.”
We conclude by sharing Daas and Wit’s book Even When They Do Nothing, Robots Are Evocative: Towards a Robotic Architecture (2018).
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In the TPJ article “An Ontology of Robotic Architecture,” Mahesh Daas and Andrew John Wit explain that traditionally:
“just as in advanced manufacturing, robotics has been understood merely as a means to an architectural end. Viewed and employed solely for their instrumental and utilitarian abilities within the realm of architectural production.”
Mimus by Madeline Gannon of ATONATON. Image by the courtesy of © ATONATON / Autodesk.
Daas and Wit go beyond the traditional thinking and consider an:
“ontological viewpoint that challenges our assumptions about robotic architecture [that] is bound by millennia of experience of designing and building on our planet. By redefining human beings as interplanetary species, we open up unprecedented engagement and integration of robotics into architecture on other planets.”
We thank the authors!
Mahesh Daas is President and ACSA Distinguished Professor at Boston Architectural College.
Andrew John Wit is an Associate Professor at Temple University.
>> We invite you to read the abstract available in THE PLAN Journal vol. 3/2018, no. 1
The book Even When They Do Nothing, Robots Are Evocative: Towards a Robotic Architecture by editors Mahesh Daas and Andrew John Wit looks at ways in which architecture and related disciplines have been influenced by emerging technologies. The book provides systems of categorization, classification and taxonomies of robotics and addresses the assorted aspects of potential production and research.
English
300 pages
ORO Editions
February 1, 2018
ISBN-10: 1939621631
ISBN-13: 987-1939621634
To learn more, check out: Even When They Do Nothing, Robots Are Evocative
Daas and Wit’s “An Ontology of Robotic Architecture” and Even When They Do Nothing, Robots Are Evocative: Towards a Robotic Architecture are thought-provoking reads for those interested in how digital technology is transforming the fields of architecture and design.
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