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Rise Tectonic Machines!: Construct the Exigent City!

by Shaffer, Marcus; Lynch, Peter | PB | Good
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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Binding
Paperback
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9781941806043
Publication Year
2013
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Rise Tectonic Machines! : Construct the Exigent City!
Illustrator
Yes
Author
Marcus Shaffer, Kyna Leski
Item Length
7.5 in
Publisher
Oro Editions
Genre
Architecture
Topic
Urban & Land Use Planning, Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Methods & Materials
Item Width
8.6 in
Number of Pages
100 Pages

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The 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: - Conditions in IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camps that warrant automated building systems. - The need for emergency city-making as means of housing displaced urban peoples. - The lack of architecture/design in environments of displacement. - The advantages of systems-based approaches to emergency housing as compared to drop-in-place structure solutions. - 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. As 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oro Editions
ISBN-10
194180604x
ISBN-13
9781941806043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038646596

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rise Tectonic Machines! : Construct the Exigent City!
Author
Marcus Shaffer, Kyna Leski
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Urban & Land Use Planning, Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Methods & Materials
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Number of Pages
100 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
8.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Preface by
Lynch, Peter

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