143. Robotic Architecture with Mahesh Daas

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

This week, we are joined by Mahesh Daas, who is the author of Toward a Robotic Architecture. Is the future of architecture all done by robots and AI? Or has it started already? 

Timestamp Outline 

2:35 Towards a Robotic Architecture

3:15 “Even when they do nothing, robots are evocative” MD

7:20 Evocation

7:39 2000 Space Odyssey + Frankenstein

9:05 Do you see robots as machines? Humans are born, robots are made

12:31 Bruno Latour Gaia Robots

13:07 “Personhood: being human and how we’re being human” MD

16:20 Do you think we’re looking at a paradigm shift with robots?

19:41 Yokohama Project

21:38 Martin Heidegger

23:23 What about a robot isn’t just technology?

24:59 Joaquin Phoenix Her + Tom Hanks Cast Away

25:23 Superhuman qualities, immortality, and robots surpassing humans and how these agencies become part of human biological composition

27:15 Noam Chomsky NY Times Article

28:16 Will robots and AI transform architecture and construction?

30:47 Prompt engineering and generated AI design architecture

42:10 Niche technologies and transformation to larger-scaled architecture

47:24 “Maybe we are also extracting thematics from deep memory and re-purposing them” VP

48:34 “The whole thing about generated AI is that they have been human-aligned… Will it be good for humans?” MD