There is a new book out, Tokyoids (MIT Press), which looks at a peculiar Japanese architectural aesthetic of buildings that look like robots. Now there is a cultural manifestation of an idea!
- See Jan-Carlos Kucharek, “Photograph: the birth of robotic architectural aesthetics,” RIBA Journal, 6 October 2022.
- François Blanciak, Tokyoids: The Robotic Face of Architecture (The MIT Press, 2022).