Architecture Design Fundamentals I: Nano-Machines

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2012

Topics

Research + Analysis
Building Logic
Digital Drawing Machine
Processing Drawings
Final Review
Developing 3D & Solid/Void
Mold Design & 3D Printing
Casting
Drawings—Plans/Sections/Axon
Growing Architectural Space
Developing Program + Social Provocation & Building Models
Developing Space, Models, & Program
Project Development

Readings

Tolley, M. T., M. Krishnan, et al. “Advances Towards Programmable Matter.” (PDF) Proc. Int. Conf. Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (2008): 653–5. ↗
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Knaian, Ara. “ Design of Programmable Matter .” M. S. in Media Arts and Sciences Thesis. MIT, 2008. ↗
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Knight, T. F., and G. J. Sussman. “ Cellular Gate Technology.” (PDF - 1.0MB) MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (July 1997). ↗
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Vacanti, M. P., and C. A. Vacanti. “ Biological Scaffolding Material .” U.S. Patent 7,319,035. Filed October 17, 2003 and issued January 15, 2008. ↗
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Aranda, B., and C. Lasch. “Cracking.” In Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling . Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, pp. 53–7. ISBN: 9781568985473. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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Rothemund, Paul Wilhelm Karl. “ A DNA and Restriction Enzyme Implementation of Turing Machines .” In DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (27) . American Mathematical Society, 1996, pp. 75–120. ISBN: 9780821805183. ↗
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Rothemund, Paul Wilhelm Karl. “ Folding DNA to Create Nanoscale Shapes and Patterns .” Nature 440 (2006): 297–302. ↗
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Griffith, Saul Thomas. “ Growing Machines .” Ph.D in Media Arts and Sciences Thesis. MIT, 2004. ↗
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Aranda, B., and C. Lasch. “Introduction.” In Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling . Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, pp. 8–9. ISBN: 9781568985473. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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Mitchell, William J. “The Logic of Architecture: Programming the Invention of Physical Artifacts.” In Logic Programming: The Joint [9th] International Conference & Symposium . Edited by Krzysztof Apt. MIT Press, 1992, pp. 831–46. ISBN: 9780262510646.
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Penrose, L. S. “ Mechanics of Self-Reproduction .” Annals of Human Genetics 23, no. 1 (1958): 59–72. ↗
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———. “ Self-Reproducing Machines.” (PDF - 1.5MB) Scientific American 202, no. 6 (1959): 105–14. ↗
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Lee, Kiju, and Gregory S. Chirikjian. “ Robotic Self-Replication: A Descriptive Framework and a Physical Demonstration from Low-Complexity Parts.” (PDF - 1.4MB) IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 14, no. 7 (2007): 34–43. ↗
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Aranda, B., and C. Lasch. “Spiraling.” In Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling . Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, pp. 12–3. ISBN: 9781568985473.
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Von Neumann, John. “ The Role of High and of Extremely High Complication.” (PDF - 1.5MB) Chapter 4 in Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata . Edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks. University of Illinois Press, 1966, pp. 64–73. ↗
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———. “ Re-evaluation of the Problems of Complicated Automata—Problems of Hierarchy and Evolution.” (PDF - 1.5MB) Chapter 5 in Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata . Edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks. University of Illinois Press, 1966, pp. 74–87. ↗
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Sources

Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
MIT OCW readings ↗
MIT OCW calendar ↗
MIT OCW syllabus ↗
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