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COMPAS FAB: Robotic fabrication package for the COMPAS Framework
Robotic fabrication package for the COMPAS Framework facilitating the planning and execution of robotic fabrication processes. It provides interfaces to existing software libraries and tools available in the field of robotics (e.g. OMPL, ROS) and makes them accessible from within the parametric design environment. The package builds upon COMPAS, an open-source Python-based framework for collaboration and research in architecture, engineering and digital fabrication.

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E-Book: The Robotic Touch – How Robots Change Architecture
When "The Robotic Touch" was first published in 2014 by Park Books, it marked a pioneering exploration into the realm of digital architecture. Whether you're an architect, a technology enthusiast, or simply intrigued by our endeavors, the book serves as a gateway to comprehending the profound impact robotics has on shaping our built environment. Originally released as a hardcover book and now out of print, we have made a freely accessible E-book version. Our aim is to make the wealth of knowledge within "The Robotic Touch" available to everyone. Download the E-book here.

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02.07.2022
How To Build A House
Benjamin Dillenburger, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Hannes Mayer, Zurich: ETH Zurich, 2020.
Digital technologies promise to fundamentally alter today’s approach to architecture and construction. How to Build a House presents the far-reaching transformations affecting the way we build and the social, economic, and ecological logic of how we make things. Bestellen Sie Ihre Kopie bei pr@gramaziokohler.com (12 CHF/EUR, exl. Versandkosten)

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01.05.2014
AD Made by Robots. Challenging Architecture at a Larger Scale.
Special Issue of AD, guest-edited by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler. Contributors: Thomas Bock, Jelle Feringa, Philippe Morel, Neri Oxman, Antoine Picon and François Roche. ETH Zurich contributors: Michael Budig, Norman Hack, Willi Lauer, Jason Lim and Raffael Petrovic (Future Cities Laboratory), Volker Helm, Silke Langenberg and Jan Willmann. Featured entrepreneurs: Greyshed, Machineous, Odico Formwork Robotics, RoboFold and ROB Technologies.

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13.02.2014
FABRICATE: Negotiating Design and Making
gta Publishers.
This publication complements the FABRICATE 2014 International Conference. It features the works of all our selected speakers as well as a further selection of 16 projects from the peer reviewed call for works. The publication also includes interviews between the keynote speakers of FABRICATE 2011 and 2014.

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12.02.2014
The Robotic Touch – How Robots Change Architecture
Park Books.
„The Robotic Touch – How Robots Change Architecture“ introduces a radically new way of thinking about and materialising architecture. It is the first anthology on architectural design with robots and provides a selection of projects that have originated over almost a decade of research at ETH Zurich. Within that scope, the book not only outlines a digital building culture to come, it deliberately proposes that this culture be shaped by architects. The book is now out of print. Nevertheless, we have made a freely accessible E-book out of it. Download the E-book here.

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22.03.2013
Flight Assembled Architecture
Editions Hyx.
The book Flight Assembled Architecture is an in-depth catalogue of the exhibition project of the same name which was developed by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea and showed at the Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Frac) Centre in Orléans, France. It presents a close exploration of the particular, and fascinating, positions of the authors and their research on architecture, system design and autonomous robotic technologies. In this, the book reveals a detailed insight into the realization of this spectacular exhibition and further equips the reader with a historical contextualization of the project.

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01.09.2008
Digital Materiality in Architecture
Lars Müller Publishers.
The book collects works of the office Gramazio & Kohler, as well as projects realised at the ETH Zurich over the last 3 years. The book can be ordered directly on the Lars Müller publishers webpage.
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