{"product_id":"9781941806043","title":"Rise Tectonic Machines!: Construct the Exigent City!","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is a collection of drawings, models, and prototypes, which represent the author's progress in making a humanitarian building-making machine for use in [re]constructing environments of displacement. As an introduction to the project, the author assembles an architectural program (purpose) for such a device. Short text essays touch upon:\u003cbr\u003e- Conditions in IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camps that warrant automated building systems.\u003cbr\u003e- The need for emergency city-making as means of housing displaced urban peoples.\u003cbr\u003e- The lack of architecture\/design in environments of displacement.\u003cbr\u003e- The advantages of systems-based approaches to emergency housing as compared to drop-in-place structure solutions.\u003cbr\u003e- A history of architectural instrumentation and tectonic machines which includes common devices such as the manual block press, and uncommon technologies such as Thomas Edison's Monolithic Pour formwork system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an introduction to the machine specifically, the author demonstrates that formwork systems have evolved over centuries to become mobile\/animated systems capable \"climbing\" and \"flying\". The writing makes a correlation between his digi-mechanical, formwork for humanitarian construction efforts, and the evolution of automated building systems in Japan - where building-making machines have evolved into animated tools developed to save and transmit cultural\/ritual craft techniques. Ultimately, the goal of the author's Tectonic Machine work is an embodied mechanical synthesis of our sophisticated\/precise building technologies, conjoined with our human building practices, which are essentially cultural\/ritual in nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ORO Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033868288240,"sku":"9781941806043","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941806043_p0.jpg?v=1763753887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941806043","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}