Claying Architecture: Making Machine and Material Kin presents a curated collection of essays, interviews and projects from leading architects, designers and researchers who are analyzing the role of clay 3D printing in contemporary architecture. The book blends research, theory and practice to highlight how this ancient material is being reimagined through 3D printing, robotic fabrication and innovative construction techniques.
Through original essays and project showcases, Claying Architecture brings together 30 plus voices from contemporary architectural academia and practice to interrogate why clay is a protagonist in contemporary architecture as an agent capable of binding new kinships between processes, environments and culture. In this sense, our ‘kinship’ with the machines of digital fabrication mirrors our ‘kinship’ with one another and opens up ways to reflect on how 3D printing clay is a method to reconsider how we code, construct and conceive architecture.
About the authors
Shelby Doyle, Frank Melendez, Kelley Van Dyck Murphy and Jonathan A. Scelsa are United States based architects and educators working in digital clay 3D printing as integral to their teaching and research practices.
Doyle is associate professor of architecture and director of graduate education in architecture at the Iowa State University College of Design.
Melendez is a partner at Augmented Architectures and bioMATTERS, LLC, based in New York City and London, as well as associate professor at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York.
Murphy is a partner and co-founder of the St. Louis-based design practice AVV A as well as associate professor of architecture at the WashU Sam Fox School.
Scelsa is a founding partner of the New York-based practice OP – Architecture Landscape and a professor at Pratt Institute.
Contributors
Matthew Allen
Rachel Armstrong
Ehsan Baharlou
Martin Bechthold
Richard Beckett
Wessel van Beerendonk
Jennifer Birkeland
Edouard Cabay
Kunaljit Chadha
Jan Contala
Assia Crawford
Alexander Curth
Nancy Diniz
Shelby Elizabeth Doyle
Alexandre Dubor
Haley Arthur Eisenman
Kiley Feickert
Laura Garófalo
Eduardo Gascón Alvarez
Fabio Gramazio
Lucas ter Hall
Nate Hume
Erin Hunt
Joyce Hwang
Margaret Ikeda
Mohamed Ismail
David Jenny
Evan Jones
Negar Kalantar
Omar Khan
Nathan King
Matthias Kohler
Andrew Kudless
Christian J. Lange
Ingrid Lilligren
Adam Marcus
Areti Markopoulou
Dinorah Martinez Schulte
Frank Melendez
Caitlin Mueller
Kelley Van Dyck Murphy
Pierre Oskam
Shawn Protz
Ronald Rael
Jenny E. Sabin
Virginia San Fratello
Andrew Saunders
Jonathan A. Scelsa
Alex Schofield
Joshua G. Stein
Robert Stuart-Smith
Garrett Sutherlin Santo
Maedeh Tafvizi
Yara Tayoun
Lauren Vasey