How the hell do you do this to a building?!
Not technically a crime against humanity, but it ought to be.
Micah Springut
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Micah Springut
@mspringut
Founder, @Monumental_Labs. Building the infrastructure for the aesthetic renaissance of cities. Sculpture + architecture + urban design.
- Hello, new followers. We make sculptures with robots…and we’re making entire buildings soon.
00:00 - Replying to @mspringutVanderbilt's new residential colleges by David M. Schwarz Architects
- Modern infrastructure builders are obsessed with brighter and whiter lighting when the answer is always soft and warm, like here in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station
- Happy to report we’re making a ton of progress automating stone fabrication and this is the future.Am I crazy or does this actually look more futuristic than anything built today?
- I’m running for mayor. My plan: 6 stories of beautiful masonry on bottom. Build whatever you want on top. I call it Paris on the streets, Hong Kong in the sheets.
- Some new developments in NY. The developers of gray boxes lookin awfully dumb right now.
- But here's the awesome thing: A robot CAN'T churn out fine art in marble because the material is so exacting and the required finish so elusive for a machine with limited tools and awareness. But a robot CAN churn out architectural building blocks and ornament in limestone with
No, we can’t just churn out 100 copies of David by machine. The demands of marble are just too high.
