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    ARCH 747: Robotic Fabrication

    Automation and robotics have helped manufacturing increase productivity by 1,500% since 1945 (McKinsey 2017). In contrast, however, construction productivity has remained relatively stagnant during the same time. The construction industry is facing pressure to change. For the robotics industry, construction presents potential use cases and unique applications that can utilize a variety of evolving technologies from drones, ground robotics, teleoperation, machine vision, additive manufacturing, and assistive robotics. These technologies take advantage of the digital revolution and utilize ideas in automobile and aerospace engineering. Our interest in these technologies is that they open new opportunities for design.

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    Meyerson Hall
    210 South 34th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

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    Program Director: Ali Rahim

    Professor of Architecture

    Ali Rahim is (Full) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where he directs the Advanced Architectural Design Program. He is also Director of CAP in SoHo, New York City. Mr. Rahim has served as the Studio Zaha Hadid Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna, as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University, and as a Visiting Architecture Professor at Harvard University.

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    Program Faculty:

    Ali Rahim

    Andrew Saunders

    Brian Deluna 

    Caleb White

    Daniela Fabricius

    Esther Choi

    Florencia Pita

    Hina Jamelle

    Hyojin Kwon

    Laia Mogus-Soldevila

    Masoud Akbarzadeh

    Matias Del Campo

    Nate Hume

    Na Wei

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