When Buildings Build Themselves

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In the second part of our popular series “How 3D Printing Will Change Our World,” we took a look at the work of Neri Oxman, an MIT professor 3D Printing fantastic, nature-inspired designs that actually respond to their environment.

But an MIT colleague and fellow architect, Skylar Tibbits, and his partner Arthur Olson of the Scripps Research Institute, are taking Oxman’s thesis one step further. Similarly inspired by natural properties that allow for interaction with the environment, these two are trying to figure out: ”Could buildings one day build themselves?”

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "When Buildings Build Themselves" 20 Jul 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/255918/when-buildings-build-themselves> ISSN 0719-8884

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