Rise Tectonic Machines!: Construct the Exigent City!

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The book is a collection of drawings, models, and prototypes, which represent the author s progress in making a humanitarian building-making machine for use in [re]constructing environments of displacement. As an introduction to the project, the author assembles an architectural program (purpose) for such a device. Short text essays touch upon: -

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Marcus Shaffer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Penn State's Stuckeman School. His research focuses on architectural works, theories, and practices that engage the Machine as an extension of our impulse to examine and remake the natural world. Kyna Leski is the Rhode Island School of Design's Architecture Department Head, and Principal, 3SIX0 Architecture. Peter Lynch, Architect, is co-Director of Metasus Design, a Rome Prize recipient, and former Head of Cranbrook Architecture.