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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Anne Filson is an architect, educator, and co-
founder of the architecture, design, and research
firm Filson and Rohrbacher. In 2009, she and Gary
Rohrbacher launched AtFAB to research and design
for distributed manufacturing and digital fabrication.
Filson began her career working for renowned archi-
tecture and design offices, including Rem Koolhaas’
Office for Metropolitan Architecture and the design
consultancy, IDEO. She writes and speaks on design,
maker culture, entrepreneurship, and the social and
economic potentials of distributed manufacturing.
She has a BA in Art History from Smith College and
Master of Architecture from Columbia University.
She teaches architecture, design thinking, and entre-
preneurship at the University of Kentucky College of
Design.
Gary Rohrbacher is an architect, professor, and co-
founder of Filson and Rohrbacher. He started his
career at award-winning architecture offices as a
project director and senior designer on numerous
internationally recognized projects. Rohrbacher’s
deep interest in the integration of design and tech-
nology, prompted the co-founding of AtFAB, where
he leads the development of its designs and hones
his craft as a digital artisan. He speaks and teaches
workshops internationally on design, making, digital
fabrication, and networked, distributed manufactur-
ing. As an educator, he has been recognized for his
graduate teaching and research excellence at Har-
vard University’s Design School, University of Texas
at Austin, California College of the Arts and currently
at the University of Kentucky College of Design. He
has an SMArchS from MIT, an MArch from Columbia
University, and BA from Lehigh University.
Anna Kaziunas France is passionate about
computer-controlled machines and parametric
design. She is the coauthor of Getting Started with
MakerBot and compiled Make: 3D Printing. Formerly,
she taught the “How to Make (Almost) Anything”
rapid prototyping course in digital fabrication at the
Fab Academy, served as the program’s Dean, and
was Make: Magazine’s digital fabrication editor.
Trained as a boat carpenter, Bill Young now works
for ShopBot Tools as a digital fabrication specialist.
In his shop on the Eastern Shore of VA, Bill has
worked on CNC projects ranging from milling circuit
boards to fabricating full-sized houses. Bill is a coc-
reator of the Shelter 2.0 project and one of the
founders of the 100kGarages digital fabrication net-
work.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Makers around the world who took the leap with us
by trusting, downloading, and building AtFAB in all
corners of the globe. We hoped but never fully imag-
ined how a project hatched in our little studio could
connect us so far. Their conversations, pictures,
emails, tweets, and posts taught us so much, made
us smile, and showed us how connected we all really
are.
This book is the product of several AtFAB connec-
tions to which we are especially indebted. Most sig-
nificantly, Anna Kaziunas-France, our talented co-
author with whom we’ve had the privilege of knowing
since her articles on CNC furniture for Make: Maga-
zine. And, of course Bill Young, our fearless collabo-
rator and teacher in so many adventures, and a
benevolent, patient friend. We also owe much to
ShopBot’s founder Ted Hall, who has been generous
with his mentoring and wisdom. We are grateful to
Jerry Davis, whose research and writing, and fore-
word to this book, furthers understanding in how
design for CNC can improve the world. Thanks also
to Greg Flanagan for sharing his Queen Anne chair
design within these pages. We express our sincerest
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