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Robots and Architecture: Experiments, Fiction, Epistemology
Author(s) -
Picon Antoine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1754
Subject(s) - architecture , robotics , robot , artificial intelligence , space (punctuation) , pessimism , sociology , value (mathematics) , utopia , computer science , aesthetics , architectural engineering , epistemology , engineering , art history , visual arts , philosophy , history , art , machine learning , operating system
How ready are we to receive robots on our building sites? Antoine Picon , G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), highlights the mixed cultural reception that robotics in architecture has received, veering from techno‐utopianism to techno‐pessimism. Is the greatest value in robotics for architecture in fact contained within the discipline, residing in the way that it forces architects to think differently, shifting their mental landscape and making them design truly three‐dimensional space? Are we, though, in danger of neglecting to explore and re‐imagine the fundamental relationships between men, designers and workers, and machines, computers and robots?