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A book, essays, journal articles and peer-reviewed papers on discrete architecture, digital fabrication and automation in design. Most of them can be read online or on Academia.

Book · Detail · 2019
Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation
Mollie Claypool, Manuel Jiménez García, Gilles Retsin, Vicente Soler
How automation and robotics are changing the way architecture is designed and built, and what a discrete, fully automated architecture could look like.
ChaptersIntroduction: Architecture in the Age of Automation · Craft · Print · Assemble · VoxelChair 1.0, 2017 · Many · Diffuse
Online articles1
Journals & magazines8
- 2021Automation and the Discrete: Exploring New Potentials for Streamlining Production in Architectural Design ResearchClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Jaschke, SaeyJournal of Architectural EducationDOI ↗
- 2019Discrete Flexibility: Computing Lightness in ArchitectureJiménez GarcíaArchitectural Design (AD) 89(2)DOI ↗
- 2019Discrete Robotic Assemblies: Towards an Automated ArchitectureJiménez García, Soler, RetsinSPOOL Journal, TU DelftDOI ↗
- 2018PrototypedJiménez GarcíaBecoming, Spanish Pavilion, Venice BiennaleAcademia ↗
- 2017SoftmodellingJiménez GarcíaPasajes Arquitectura 143Academia ↗
- 2017The Woven MemoryJiménez GarcíaPasajes Arquitectura 144Academia ↗
- 2014Uncertain Nervous SystemJiménez GarcíaPFC Designing the Future 4Academia ↗
- 2012Digital PlasterDourtme, Ernst, Jiménez García, GarcíaUrban Flux 26(4)Academia ↗
Book chapters1
Conference papers16
- 2021Automated Production: at the Intersection of Digital Labour and Building PracticeClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Jaschke, SaeyACSA 109th Annual MeetingDOI ↗
- 2020Discrete AutomationClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Saey, JaschkeACADIA 2020 — Distributed ProximitiesDOI ↗
- 2020Combinatorial Design: Designing Collaborative Models for ConstructionClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Jaschke, SaeyDesign in the Digital Age, NaplesAcademia ↗
- 2019Automated Brick Pattern Generator for Robotic Assembly using Machine Learning and ImagesZandavali, Jiménez GarcíaeCAADe + SIGraDi 2019DOI ↗
- 2017A Generalised Approach to Non-Layered Fused Filament FabricationSoler, Retsin, Jiménez GarcíaACADIA 2017 — Disciplines & Disruption, MITDOI ↗
- 2017Robotic Spatial PrintingJiménez García, Soler, RetsineCAADe 2017 — ShoCK, Sapienza RomeDOI ↗
- 2017Discrete Computational Methods for Additive ManufacturingRetsin, Jiménez GarcíaFabricate 2017, University of StuttgartDOI ↗
- 2016Discrete Computational Methods for Robotic Additive ManufacturingJiménez García, RetsinACADIA 2016 — Posthuman FrontiersDOI ↗
- 2016Flexible Discreteness: Computational Design Methods for Linear ElementsJiménez GarcíaTxA Emerging Design + TechnologyAcademia ↗
- 2016Soft-Modelling: Open Source Java Application for Flexible Structural SystemsJiménez GarcíaeCAADe 2016 — Complexity & Simplicity, OuluDOI ↗
- 2016From Continuous to Discrete FabricationJiménez García, Retsin, SolerAAE 2016 — Research-Based Education, The BartlettRead ↗
- 2015Design Methods for Large Scale PrintingJiménez García, RetsineCAADe 2015 — Real Time, ViennaDOI ↗
- 2014Project: SoftModellingJiménez GarcíaACADIA 2014 — Design Agency, USCDOI ↗
- 2014Towards the Irreducibility of Architectural MethodologiesClaypool, Jiménez GarcíaENHSA-EAAE — What’s the Matter, ETSABAcademia ↗
- 2012Digital Plaster: A Prototypical Design SystemDourtme, Ernst, Jiménez García, GarcíaACADIA 2012 — Synthetic Digital Ecologies, CCADOI ↗
- 2011Digital PlasterJiménez García et al.Rethinking the Human in Technology Driven Architecture, Chania, CreteAcademia ↗
