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Baskets and Architecture: Ritualistic Making and Collective Design
Author(s) -
Aranda Benjamin,
Lasch Chris
Publication year - 2017
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.2197
Subject(s) - parallels , craft , architecture , indigenous , studio , sociology , history , engineering , archaeology , operations management , telecommunications , ecology , biology
Is algorithmic design and fabrication really a new thing? Not according to Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch , co‐founders of New York and Tucson‐based design studio Aranda\Lasch. Through over a decade of collaborations with a Native American basket weaver, they have observed clear parallels between age‐old craft forms and contemporary architectural processes. Here they give their account of the outcomes of these collaborations to date, including an ongoing project for sophisticated collective construction to serve indigenous communities.

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