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Books and Edited Volumes <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Co-authored with Andrew John Wit. I, Nobot<\/em><\/strong>, Oro Editions, 2023. ISBN 978-1951541637. A graphic novella about AI, robots, humans, and cities, fully illustrated using generative AI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Co-edited with Andrew John Wit. Towards a Robotic Architecture<\/em><\/strong>, Applied Resarch+Design Publishing (an imprint of Oro Editions), 2018. ISBN 978- 1939621634. Chosen as Top Tech Book of the Year in 2018 by Architect\u2019s Newspaper, New York.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Leading with Aesthetics: The Transformational Leadership of Charles M. Vest at M.I.T.<\/em><\/strong>, Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield). Hardcover 2015, Paperback 2019. ISBN 978- 1498502498.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Co-edited with Shekhar Chandrasekhar and Noha El-Ghobashy. Research in Materials and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability<\/em><\/strong>, Transactions of the National Science Foundation Workshop held in 2011 in collaboration with American Society of Mechanical Engineers and IEEE. 2012. Federal Award ID: 1059841. ISBN: 978- 0937994450<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Book Chapters, and Journal Articles <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. \u201cModerials and Their Discontents,\u201d in Thom Mayne and Morphosis, M\u00b3: Morphosis Model Monograph<\/em>. New York: Rizzoli, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. With Christian Schlette, and Ethan Kerber. “Modelling and simulation in construction robotics.” Construction Robotics<\/em> 4.3-4, 2020: 115-116.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. With Andrew John Wit, Lauren Vasey, Vera Parlac, Mara Marcu, Wassim Jabi, David Gerber, and Mark Clayton. \u201cArtificial Intelligence and Robotics in Architecture: Autonomy, Agency, and Indeterminacy.\u201d International Journal of Architectural Computing 16, no. 4, December 2018: 245\u201347.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. With Andrew Wit, \u201cAn Ontology of Robotic Architecture\u201d in The Plan Journal, 3 (1), 2018. DOI: 10.15274\/tpj.2018.03.01.12<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. \u201cBeing Thinking Doing Becoming: Framing Robotics in Architecture,\u201d in Towards a Robotic Architecture, San Francisco: Applied Research+Design Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1939621634, pp. 12-27.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. With Andrew John Wit, \u201cRobotic Production in Architecture,\u201d in Towards a Robotic Architecture, San Francisco: Applied Research+Design Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978- 1939621634, pp. 28-61.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. With Andrew John Wit, \u201cSoft, Squishy and Gooey: A Dialog with Skylar Tibbits,\u201d in Towards a Robotic Architecture, San Francisco: Applied Research+Design Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1939621634, pp. 240-249.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. \u201cPeeling the Design Onion: A Theoretical and Systems Framework for Adaptive Architecture,\u201d in Unconventional Computing – Design Methods for Adaptive Architecture, Toronto: Riverside Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-926724-24-9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. With Mark Clayton, Wassim Jabi and Gregory Luhan, \u201cFormative Pathways: Changing Systems of Design – From Heuristics to Applications, Pedagogies, and Processes,\u201d (Editorial) in International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Volume 11, Number 4 \/ December 2013. DOI: 10.1260\/1478-0771.11.4.iii<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. \u201cAfterword,\u201d in Michael Fox and Miles Kemp, Interactive Architecture, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN 9781568988368. Invited.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    11. \u201cCircuits, Death and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras,\u201d in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds., Critical Digital Studies, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Other authors include Katherine Hayles, Lynn Hershmann, Lev Manovich and Donna Haraway. ISBN: 978-0802095466. Invited.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    12. \u201cformZ in flatWorld,\u201d in Murali Paranandi, ed., Digital Pedagogies: Joint Studies Journal, Columbus, OH: AutoDesSys, February 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-9792943-0-3. (Invited)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    13. \u201cSolar Sails and the Triad of Sustainability,\u201d in R. Longoria and K. Tanzer, eds. The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity, Routledge, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415415002. ISBN-10: 0415415004<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    14. \u201cRethinking Smart Architecture: Some Strategic Design Frameworks,\u201d in G. Vasquez de Velasco and Jose Ripper Kos, et al., eds., the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Multiscience, V.4, No. 3, December 2006, pp. 33-46. Quarterly, ISSN 1478 0771<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    15. \u201cRhizogramming and a Synesthetic Transformation of Designer\u2019s Mind,\u201d in L. Vellner, et al., eds. Dynamics of Architectural Knowledge, Helsinki, Finland, Summer 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    16. \u201cCircuits, Death and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras,\u201d in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds., Life in the Wires: The Ctheory Reader, Victoria, Canada: Ctheory Books 2004, pp. 230-233. ISBN: 0-920393-21-7. Invited.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    17. \u201cDeconstructing the Software Interface: A Critical Close Reading of AutoCAD,\u201d in J. Bermudez and Jose Ripper Kos, eds., the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Multiscience, V.7, December 2004, pp. 299-314.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    18. With Kenneth Masden, \u201cInterrupted Interface: On the Cybernetics of Digital Design Process,\u201d Automation in Construction (AIC), Elsevier Press, 2003, 12:6:655-659. Quarterly, ISSN 0926-5805<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    19. \u201cDigital Technology, Systemic Flexibility, and the Epistemological Crisis of Architectural Education System,\u201d in Ann Elisabeth Taft, ed., Ethics in Architecture: Architectural Education in the Epoch of Virtuality\/ L’\u00e9thique en architecture: L’enseignement de l’architecure \u00e0 l’\u00e8re virtuelle, Aarhus, Denmark: European Association of Architectural Education Publication (Transactions on Architectural Education Series#8), 2000, pp. 41-48. ISBN: 2-930301-02-3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    20. With M. Dutta, \u201cSolar Sails: An Installation,\u201d Second Prize winning refereed design project and writing published in Sun Wall Design Competition book, Golden, CO: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2001. Federal pub.: DOE\/GO102001- 1339.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Peer Reviewed Conference Publications <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. With Andrew Wit, \u201cThe Affordances of Robotic Production,\u201d Architectural Research Centers Consortium and European Association of Architectural Educators international conference, Philadelphia, May 18, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. With Andrew Wit, \u201cUnsolicited: An Inconvenient Studio,\u201d Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2015 Conference, Daegu, Korea, 18-23 May, 2015, pp. 3-12.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. \u201cTowards a Taxonomy of Architectural Robotics,\u201d Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) 2014 Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 12-14, 2014, pp. 623-626.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. With Andrew Wit, Caylon Beville, Shannon Buchanan, and Adam Dally, \u201cUrban Network,\u201d Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference, Los Angeles, 23-26 October 2014, pp 23-26.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. \u201cAnachronisms of Digital Fabrication: Some Questions of Relevance,\u201d Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) Conference, Bogota, Colombia, November 17-19, 2010, pp. 138-141.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. \u201cDeconstructing Materiality and the Transformation of Digital Architecture,\u201d Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) Conference, Bogota, Colombia, November 17-19, 2010. pp. n.a.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      7. With Joshua Vermillion, \u201cAn Inconvenient Studio,\u201d ACADIA 09: reForm( ) – Building a Better Tomorrow [Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-9842705-0-7] Chicago (Illinois) 22-25 October, 2009), pp. 287-290.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      8. With Devin Oatman, \u201cAm I? The Architecture of Ambient Intelligence,\u201d Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) Conference, Halifax, Canada, October 1-7, 2007, pp. 158-163.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      9. \u201cPushing the Boundaries: Lessons from A Tensile Membrane Design-Develop-Build Studio\u201d in the Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Philadelphia, March 8-11, 2007. pp. n.a.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      10. \u201cLight Exchange,\u201d refereed project and narrative published in the Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Louisville, KY, October 12-16, 2006, pp. 538-539.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      11. With C. Nakamura, \u201cGoing Past the Golem: The Emergence of Smart Architecture,\u201d paper published in the Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Louisville, KY, October 12-15, 2006, pp. 372-382.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      12. \u201cCurvilinear: Pedagogy of Tensile Fabrications,\u201d paper published in the Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Louisville, KY, October 12-15, 2006, pp. 122-134.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      13. \u201cKinetic and Responsive: A Complex-adaptive Approach to Smart Architecture,\u201d paper published in Vision and Visualization, Proceedings of the Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) International Conference, Lima, Peru, November 21-23, 2005. Refereed, 750-word abstract. pp. n.a.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      14. \u201cBuilding is a network for living in,\u201d in the Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Savannah, GA, 2005, pp. 36-47.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      15. \u201cPostspatial Architectures: The Emergence of Time-like Parametric Worlds,\u201d paper published in Cultura Digital y Diferenciacion, Proceedings of the Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) International Conference, Rosario, Argentina, 2003, pp. 375-382. ISBN: 987-9459-51-2. (Keynote Presentation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      16. \u201cDeconstructing AutoCAD: Toward a Critical Theory of Software (in) Design,\u201d in S. Carmena, ed., Cultura Digital y Diferenciacion, Proceedings of the Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) International Conference, Rosario, Argentina, 2003, pp. 21-25. ISBN: 987-9459-51-2. Refereed 750-word abstract. (Awarded \u201cBest Paper\u201d prize out of 135 papers)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      17. \u201cRhizograms: A Synesthetic Approach to Design Process,\u201d in Dynamics of Architectural Knowledge, Proceedings of the European Association of Architectural Educators (EAAE) International Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2003. pp. n.a.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      18. \u201cTime-like Architectures: The Emergence of Postspatial Parametric Worlds,\u201d in G. Proctor, ed., Thresholds, Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Pomona, California, 2002, pp. 71-78. ISBN: 1-880250-11-X.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      19. \u201cTime-like Architectures: The Emergence of Postspatial Parametric Worlds,\u201d in K. Koszewski and S. Wrona, eds., Design E-ducation, Proceedings of the Education of Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (ECAADE) International Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2002, pp. 254-261. ISBN: 0-954183-0-8. Refereed abstract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      20. With Kenneth Masden, \u201cInterrupted Interface: On the Cybernetics of Artistic Process,\u201d in K. Koszewski and S. Wrona, eds., Design E-ducaiton, Proceedings of the Education of Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (ECAADE) International Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2002, pp. 168-172. ISBN: 0-954183-0-8. Refereed abstract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      21. \u201cSolar Sails: An Installation,\u201d in R. El-Khoury, ed., Architecture in Communication, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002, pp. 172-173.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      22. \u201cSofterials: Digital Materiality and the Transformation of Architecture,\u201d in G. Guzman, ed., Libro de Ponencias, Proceedings of the Sociedad Iberoamericana Grafica Digital (SIGRADI) International Conference, Concepcion, Chile, 2001, pp. 272-274.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      23. (Mejor Presentacion\/Best Presentation Award out of 95 presentations). Refereed, 750- word abstract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      24. \u201cProduction of Digital Space: On the Nature of Digital Materiality,\u201d in H. Pentilla, ed., Architectural Information Management, Proceedings of eCAADe Conference, 2001, pp. 348-351. ISBN 0-9523687-8-1. Refereed abstract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      25. \u201cThoroughbred Pegasus Plaza,\u201d in W. Jabi, ed., Reinventing the Discourse, Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Buffalo, New York, 2001, pp. 412-413. ISBN: 1-880250- 10-1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      26. \u201cSpeed and Relativity: Toward Time-like Architecture,\u201d in T. Fisher and C. Macy, eds., Paradoxes of Progress, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 2001, pp. 364-370.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      27. \u201cArchitecture, Speed and Relativity: On the Ethics of Infinity, Eternity and Technology,\u201d in M. Clayton and G. Vasquez de Velasco, eds., Eternity, Infinity and Virtuality in Architecture, Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. 29- 37. ISBN: 1-880250-09-8.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      28. \u201cAn Epistemological and Systems Approach to Digital Technology Integration,\u201d in O. Ataman and J. Bermudez, eds., Media and Design Process, Proceedings of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) International Conference, Snowbird, Utah, 1999, pp. 16-26. ISBN: 1-880250-08-X.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      29. \u201cDigital Technology, Systemic Flexibility, and the Epistemological Crisis of Architectural Education System,\u201d in A.E. Taft, ed., Proceedings of the European Association of Architectural Educators (EAAE) International Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, 1999, pp. 22-28.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      30. \u201cGrowing Rhizomes and Collapsing Walls: Postmodern Paradigms for Architectural Education,\u201d in K. Deines and K. B. Jones, eds., La Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) International Conference, Rome, Italy, 1999, pp. 83-87.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      31. \u201cThe Absurd Self and The Naked City: An Existential Redefinition of Sustainable Urbanism and the Case of Banaras,\u201d in K. Deines and K. B. Jones, eds., La Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) International Conference, Rome, Italy, 1999, pp. 257-263.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      32. \u201cToward Noosphere: Envisioning Wall-less Studios and Rhizomatic Pedagogy,\u201d in Legacy + Aspirations, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999, pp. 149-155.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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