Tokyoids by Francois Blanciak - ISBN: 9780262544238
Paperback
Tokyo buildings reveal their robotic faces, rewriting architectural history.

Tokyoids

The Robotic Face of Architecture

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    224 pages

  • Release Date

    25 October 2022

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Summary

In Tokyoids, architect François Blanciak surveys the robotic faces omnipresent in Tokyo buildings, offering an architectural taxonomy based not on the usual variables—size, material, historical style—but on the observable expressions of buildings. Are the eyes (windows) twinkling, the mouth (door) laughing? Is that balcony a howl of distress?

Investigating robot aesthetics through his photographs of fifty buildings, Blanciak argues that the robot face originated in architectu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262544238
ISBN-10:0262544237
Author:Francois Blanciak
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:25 October 2022
Weight:369g
Dimensions:203mm x 133mm
About The Author

Francois Blanciak

François Blanciak is an architect and Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Siteless- 1001 Building Forms (MIT Press).

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