Age-Old Craft and New Technology Come Together in Architecture’s Maker Space
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Deep in the basement of Schermerhorn Extension, a bank of 3-D printers form objects from coats of resin, and a robotic arm extrudes a bright yellow substance while nearby a student snips through a bolt of blue fabric. The scent of freshly cut wood fills the space as another student maneuvers a piece of pine through a band saw.
This hive of creative industry is the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s newly remodeled maker space, the Fabrication Lab or Fab Lab. It has existed in one form or another since the 1970s. And though it has sometimes been run by students, it is now directed by Joshua Jordan, who arrived at Columbia in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania.
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