Craft, Technology and Computation

We expand traditions of making towards new techniques that integrate manual craft, computational design, digital fabrication and advanced robotic technologies, often in hybrid relationships. Our research is supported by an excellent suite of workshops and digital manufacturing facilities, as well as the expertise of outstanding craftsmen.

Aesthetic and material innovation is paralleled by scholarship that theorises and contextualises digital approaches to production and critically examines the value of building technologies in architectural history, the profession and society at large.

Research Projects 

• 55/02
• Alga(e)zebo
• Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop (BIAW)
• Bishop Edward King Chapel
• Block N15 Façade, Olympic Village
• Chong Qing Nan Lu Towers
• Exuberance: New Virtuosity in Contemporary Architecture
• Fabricate
• Fearful Symmetry
• Kunsthaus Graz
• Lunar Wood
• Megaframe: External Structural Steelwork System of the Leadenhall Building
• Neoplasmatic Design
• PerFORM
• Proto-Robotic FOAMing
• River Douglas Bridge
• The ActiveHouse: Active Thermally Insulated Façades
• The Alphabet and the Algorithm
• The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

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Image: Proto-Robotic FOAMing