Tokyoids
The Robotic Face of Architecture
$49.08
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2022
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 |
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| 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 |
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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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