Homing the Machine in Architecture

Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.

Galo Canizares is a designer, writer, and educator. His work blends absurdity, computation, world-making, simulation, and parafiction to address issues in technology and the built environment. He is currently researching the sociotechnical networks of relations between design’s softwarization and the architectural imagination. Galo was the recipient of the 2016–17 LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship, and in 2018 was awarded the Christos Yessios Visiting Professorship at The Ohio State University. His collaborative architectural practice, office ca, won the 2018 Ragdale Ring competition. He is currently Assistant Professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design where he directs the Critical Software Lab.

Zach Cohen is a designer, researcher, and educator. His research and teaching examine the ways in which architects can use digital fabrication technologies to reimagine both the immaterial and physical labor of architectural design. From 2019 to 2021, Zach was the Christos Yessios Visiting Assistant Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. Prior to his time at Knowlton, he was a Research Lead at the Self-Assembly Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zach is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union, where he teaches courses centered on what he calls “theoretical digital fabrication.” He is also the co-founder and partner of the Brooklyn-based architectural design practice, common craft, which presently has a variety of commercial and residential construction projects in and around New York City.