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| I’m Not a Robot: Design and Architecture Between Human and Machine, 2025-2026 |
| Exhibition at the Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark |
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A tower assembled by drones. A vineyard façade crafted by industrial robots. At the Utzon Center, the exhibition I’m Not a Robot: Design and Architecture Between Human and Machine presents Gramazio Kohler’s previous and ongoing exploration of how architecture emerges through collaboration between humans and machines. The robot is not an autonomous entity but an extension of the architect’s hand, a precise and evolving tool that translates digital logic into material form.
The exhibition brings together Gramazio Kohler’s architecture and research into robotic fabrication and computational design of the last two decades, with projects such as Remote Material Deposition, Flight Assembled Architecture, Semiramis and Impact Printing. The work reflects on how computation and craftsmanship can coexist, allowing new architectural and design languages to arise from a new dialogue between data and matter. Alongside, two archival pieces, the Programmed Columns (2010) and the Robotic Fabricated High Rises (2013), have been restored for the occasion, offering a reflection on the possible restoration practices on robotic fabricated pieces itself. Within a broader cultural and historical context, the exhibition reflects on how robots and artificial intelligence continue to redefine design and architecture, not as an opponent, but as a very sophisticated tool, one that we can understand, control, and also take pride in using. The exhibition will be open from 20 November 2025 to 18 October 2026. Further Links Utzon Center Website
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Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich & Utzon Center, Aalborg
Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Alessandra Gabaglio (project lead), Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Park Min Ghi, Lo Tzu Hsien, Ananya Kango, Gatari Juste Tresor, Nadja Milas, Alexandra Moisi, Michael Lyrenmann, Panayiotis Papacharalambous, Luca Petrus, Li Yu-Syuan Selected Experts: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Laurence Crouzet (Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich) Special thanks to: Line Nørskov Davenport (Director of Exhibitions, Utzon Center), Lasse Andersson (Director, Museum of Modern Art Aalborg) and their teams |
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