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A Matter Design-made walking concrete system

Performance Matters

Matter Design looks to the past to design a more animated architecture

June 22, 2020

all-white interior with images and text on the wall, part of Artificial Intelligence & Architecture

French Facsimile

Artificial Intelligence & Architecture at Paris’s Pavillon de l’Arsenal goes digital

April 7, 2020

A procedurally generated neighborhood drawing

Sidewalk Labs is using machine learning to make neighborhood design smoother

January 13, 2020

A top down view of colorful metal bands forming columns and circular open roofs, designed by SOFTlab

SOFTlab used complex computation to realize a colorful Philly installation

December 17, 2019

An undulating green pavilion in a public square at a university, designed by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY

MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY uses computational design to realize a breezy Texas pavilion

September 27, 2019

Aerial image of a twisting glass tower, the Totzeret Haaretz

Not your father's Garden City

Ron Arad Architect’s Totzeret Haaretz contorts over Tel Aviv with glass and sintered stone

August 21, 2019

Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II

August 19, 2019

A pavilion with a clear skin in a field of flowers, for the BUGA horticulture show

Carbon-up Fibers

Researchers and robots team up to build innovative pavilion in a German garden

August 15, 2019

Nine concrete columns are lit below in front of a mountain in a nighttime scene thanks to the team from ETH Zurich

Choreographed Columns

Researchers and students at ETH Zurich print complex columns for dance festival

July 29, 2019

An upward shot of an interlocking, biomorphic fiber structure presented at Exhibit Columbus

Columbus Composites

Exhibit Columbus’s inaugural fellow program will go high-tech

July 8, 2019

Photo of blue and white pavilion with pillars curving out into spheres

MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY creates cloud-like pavilion in Charlotte

June 20, 2019

6 elements in the evolution of a floor plan—starting with disparate gray circles and eventually winding up in a coherent, multicolored map

Genetic Mutation

Could buildings be evolved instead of designed?

June 17, 2019