Decanting the Log
Document Type
Video
Date
11-1-2024
Keywords
Digital Fabrication, Emerging Technology
Language
English
Disciplines
Architectural Technology | Architecture
Description/Abstract
Today, the Biomaterial Turn foregrounds changing ecological and material ethics that necessitate alternative approaches to working with grown matter. By reconsidering our relationship to craft, construction practices, and fabrication technologies, architects and builders can leverage the embodied intelligence and grown form of natural materials – a shift in approach from specifying to strategizing.
Maturing digital tools allow for a reimagining of traditional constraints on material economies and labor. In their practice, After Architecture, and research lab, Before Building, Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann deploy both analog tools and emerging technologies to collaborate with natural materials. They seek to make computational construction techniques low cost and accessible, using consumer grade technologies and inventing their own low-cost ground-up systems. Their work proposes an expanded approach in which architects conceptualize and execute not just single projects, but the systems, methods, and technologies that enable their production - a shift in the respective agencies of architect, builder, and factory.
Recommended Citation
Schumann, Kyle and MacDonald, Katie, "Decanting the Log" (2024). School of Architecture Lectures Series. 332.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_lectures/332
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Additional Information
Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann co- founded After Architecture.