Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, California and Athens, Greece. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson (creator of Grasshopper’s plug-in Firefly) and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of award-winning projects that focus on the …
Dutch electronics powerhouse Philips released last December details about their innovative research in renewable and naturally inspired lighting. BioLight is a look into utilizing glowing bacteria to eventually light our homes without the use of electricity. The same way certain …
An excellent conference oppurtunity has come to our attention in Spain: 6th International Conference on Relating Design in Nature with Science and Engineering. It is scheduled for 11 â 13 June 2012 in A CoruĂąa Spain. Anyone intersted can visit …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JnkMyfQ5YfY] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8L1WF-Sxlg] You heard and saw correctly. Flight assembled architecture is a video showing small scale flying robotic agents assemble a wall over time by lifting bricks one by one and placing them in correct orientation due to pre programmed …
London-based design studio Minimaforms (brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos) question how architecture can facilitate new forms of communication. Through experimental architecture, they explore these questions in hopes to open up a dialogue about social and material interaction. Check out more pictures in …
Alghorithmic Design run by Ezio Blasseti is an online repository of code used to generate form with Python and Processing. Its a priceless tutorial and content resource dedicated to “computational craft,” definitely check it out, amazing graphics as well.
Kokkugia is a progressive architecture and urban design practice exploring generative and emergent design methods modeled primarily after self-organizing behavior found in biology (resulting in what they call “non-linear” architecture). Its run by Roland Snooks (currently teaching at Columbia GSAPP) …
Solid Thinking is an amazing software that takes your engineered solids and models (in various formats) and optimizes them the same way as if nature had built it (with material only responding to anchors and direct force. You need to …
Case center for Architecture Science and Ecology in NYC is a very promising research program pushing architectural innovation into an entirely new generation. It is a joint collaboration between research office co-hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore, Owings & …
An awesome book has come to our attention by Actar Publishing entitled Natures. It is part of the elegantly crafted Verb series of “Boogazines” (half book, half magazine, clever eh?). Take a look and see what’s inside, great addition to …
