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.
To -home- a digital fabrication?machine?is to send it back to its origin point-a point that can be specified by the fabricator in advance of the fabrication process or by the defaults that are pre-programmed into the?machine. The?homing?process is necessary and productive since it determines the physical point at which the?machine (and the maker) begin making-every time that architectural designers begin to digitally fabricate something new, they first need to home the?machine. This book gathers first- and second-hand accounts of the origins of individual -digi-fab- practices from the emergence of advanced prototyping tools to the contemporary moment. It features interviews, essays, and case studies organized around three questions: What are the possible histories of digit
