Below is a list of readings I intend on completing. Please comment with any suggestions you have.

• Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake
• Argues that architecture should look towards the manufacturing processes used by automobiles among others if it is to survive the 21st century.

Completed

• CAx Process Chain for Two Robots Based Incremental Sheet Metal Forming
• A technical paper on AISF with two robots

In Progress

• N Callicott, Computer-aided Manufacture in Architecture: The Pursuit of Novelty, Architectural Press (Oxford), 2002.
• D Noble, ‘Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools’, in D MacKenzie and J Wajcman (eds)
• Pattern by Andrea Gleiniger and Georg Vrachiotis, 2009
• Interior Surfaces and Materials by Christian Schittich, 2009
• The Articulate Surface by Ben Pell, 2010

Incremental Sheet Forming has not really caught on in the automobile and aviation manufacturing because they tend to produce the same part over an over again. Their products have no site specificity, and so do not need to adapt to their environments with variations among their components. In architecture, there is a growing need to come up with new processes for producing the variation in components across a building facade. Roboforming provides the opportunity for a fast, material and labor efficient method for producing this variation. With the introduction of this process in architecture, and architectural education, the field can be pushed further towards the goal of mass-customization of facades specific to placement on the building.