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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.

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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.

160 pages · ISBN 978-3-95553-424-0

ChaptersIntroduction: Architecture in the Age of Automation · Craft · Print · Assemble · VoxelChair 1.0, 2017 · Many · Diffuse

Online articles1

  1. 2023A New Industrial RevolutionJiménez GarcíaLaufen Roca Gallery · also in Spanish: “Una nueva revolución industrial”Read ↗

Journals & magazines8

  1. 2021Automation and the Discrete: Exploring New Potentials for Streamlining Production in Architectural Design ResearchClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Jaschke, SaeyJournal of Architectural EducationDOI ↗
  2. 2019Discrete Flexibility: Computing Lightness in ArchitectureJiménez GarcíaArchitectural Design (AD) 89(2)DOI ↗
  3. 2019Discrete Robotic Assemblies: Towards an Automated ArchitectureJiménez García, Soler, RetsinSPOOL Journal, TU DelftDOI ↗
  4. 2018PrototypedJiménez GarcíaBecoming, Spanish Pavilion, Venice BiennaleAcademia ↗
  5. 2017SoftmodellingJiménez GarcíaPasajes Arquitectura 143Academia ↗
  6. 2017The Woven MemoryJiménez GarcíaPasajes Arquitectura 144Academia ↗
  7. 2014Uncertain Nervous SystemJiménez GarcíaPFC Designing the Future 4Academia ↗
  8. 2012Digital PlasterDourtme, Ernst, Jiménez García, GarcíaUrban Flux 26(4)Academia ↗

Book chapters1

  1. 2017Robotic Spatial PrintingRetsin, Jiménez García, SolerTowards a Robotic Architecture, ORO EditionsAcademia ↗

Conference papers16

  1. 2021Automated Production: at the Intersection of Digital Labour and Building PracticeClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Jaschke, SaeyACSA 109th Annual MeetingDOI ↗
  2. 2020Discrete AutomationClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Saey, JaschkeACADIA 2020 — Distributed ProximitiesDOI ↗
  3. 2020Combinatorial Design: Designing Collaborative Models for ConstructionClaypool, Retsin, Jiménez García, Jaschke, SaeyDesign in the Digital Age, NaplesAcademia ↗
  4. 2019Automated Brick Pattern Generator for Robotic Assembly using Machine Learning and ImagesZandavali, Jiménez GarcíaeCAADe + SIGraDi 2019DOI ↗
  5. 2017A Generalised Approach to Non-Layered Fused Filament FabricationSoler, Retsin, Jiménez GarcíaACADIA 2017 — Disciplines & Disruption, MITDOI ↗
  6. 2017Robotic Spatial PrintingJiménez García, Soler, RetsineCAADe 2017 — ShoCK, Sapienza RomeDOI ↗
  7. 2017Discrete Computational Methods for Additive ManufacturingRetsin, Jiménez GarcíaFabricate 2017, University of StuttgartDOI ↗
  8. 2016Discrete Computational Methods for Robotic Additive ManufacturingJiménez García, RetsinACADIA 2016 — Posthuman FrontiersDOI ↗
  9. 2016Flexible Discreteness: Computational Design Methods for Linear ElementsJiménez GarcíaTxA Emerging Design + TechnologyAcademia ↗
  10. 2016Soft-Modelling: Open Source Java Application for Flexible Structural SystemsJiménez GarcíaeCAADe 2016 — Complexity & Simplicity, OuluDOI ↗
  11. 2016From Continuous to Discrete FabricationJiménez García, Retsin, SolerAAE 2016 — Research-Based Education, The BartlettRead ↗
  12. 2015Design Methods for Large Scale PrintingJiménez García, RetsineCAADe 2015 — Real Time, ViennaDOI ↗
  13. 2014Project: SoftModellingJiménez GarcíaACADIA 2014 — Design Agency, USCDOI ↗
  14. 2014Towards the Irreducibility of Architectural MethodologiesClaypool, Jiménez GarcíaENHSA-EAAE — What’s the Matter, ETSABAcademia ↗
  15. 2012Digital Plaster: A Prototypical Design SystemDourtme, Ernst, Jiménez García, GarcíaACADIA 2012 — Synthetic Digital Ecologies, CCADOI ↗
  16. 2011Digital PlasterJiménez García et al.Rethinking the Human in Technology Driven Architecture, Chania, CreteAcademia ↗
All papers on Academia ↗