Mind Over Matter
We Used to Build Buildings. Now We Grow Them.
Architects are entering a new era of material alchemy—where steel, ceramics, and even diamonds are grown like living tissue, not manufactured.
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Mind Over Matter
Are Architects Ready for Materials That Think for Themselves?
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Mind & Matter
Color Revolution: How Cutting-edge Smart Materials Are Redefining Design Aesthetics and Functionality
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Technology
This Week in Tech & Culture: Living With Wildfire
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Technology
This Week in Tech & Culture: Chipotle’s 100% Electric Restaurants, the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence, and Iconic Barbie House Architecture
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Editorial
The Transformative Potential of Design Solidarity
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Technology
This Week in Tech & Culture: IKEA’s Bio-based Glues, Waste-free 3D-printed Concrete Walls, and Real-time Flood Data with AI and Google
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Products
ARCHITECT Gift Guide 2022: Picks That Delight Design Lovers
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Technology
Week in Tech: MIT Researchers Help Architects Choose Between Timber and Steel
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Technology
Week in Tech: Design Week Lagos Gets a Netflix Show
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Technology
Week in Tech: +Pool Finds a Home
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Technology
Week in Tech: Life Beyond Earth
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Technology
Week in Tech: An Architectural Styrofoam Biodigester
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Technology
Week in Tech: Creating Biofuel With an Elevator for Kelp
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Technology
Week in Tech: Plant Prefab’s Passive Houses
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Technology
Week in Tech: A Nuclear Reactor for a New Age
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Technology
Week in Tech: MIT Researchers Turn 3D Printer Defects Into Textiles
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Technology
Week in Tech: Hyperloop Reveals West Virginia Certification Center
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Technology
Week in Tech: Monitoring the Efficiency of Drive-By Sensing
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Obituary
Edward Allen, Building Technology Educator and Author, Dies at 81
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Technology
Week in Tech: Digitally Restoring Endangered UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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Technology
This Week in Tech: New Concrete Technologies to Reduce Carbon Emissions
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Technology
Week in Tech: Lasers for Assessing Earthquake Damage and Lasers for Clean Water
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Mind & Matter
Hybrid Technologies and the Automation of Construction
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Technology
This Week in Tech: WeWork and S9 Architecture Inaugurate the Flood-Resilient Dock 72 in Brooklyn
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Technology
This Week in Tech: A Floating LED Installation that Tracks Water Quality by +Pool
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Explore an Unrealized Michael Graves Project in VR
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Technology
This Week in Tech: MAD Architects Reimagines the Hyperloop System
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Mind & Matter
A Lesson on People, Place, and Plants
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The Near Future
Here Come Big Tech and the Venture Capitalists
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Technology
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Proposes a Moon Village for Permanent Lunar Settlement
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Technology
This Week in Tech: This Tiny House Runs on Dunkin’
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Amazon Invests $10 Million to Increase Recycling
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Technology
This Week in Tech: PriestmanGoode and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Unveil a Full-Scale Hyperloop Prototype
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Automation
3D Printing and Swarm Robotics Merge in Neri Oxman’s Fiberbots
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Appointments
J. Meejin Yoon Named Dean of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
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Technology
This Week in Tech: A Floating Park Made Entirely of Recycled Plastic Waste
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Technology
Nontoxic Waterproofing Process By MIT
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Europe’s First LEED-Certified City is Savona, Italy
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Is Apple Building Another U.S. Campus?
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Scientists Accidentally Engineer Plastic-Eating Enzyme
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Super Wood that Could Replace Steel
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Virgin Hyperloop One Releases Pod Prototypes
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Competitions
French Team Wins Mosul Postwar Camp Design Competition
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Concrete Reinforced with Water Bottle Waste
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Technology
This Week in Tech: The World’s First Floating Wind Farm Is Generating Energy
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Earthquake-Resistant Concrete Shakes Up the Industry
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Leaders in Solar Power Extend Aid to Puerto Rico
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Vibranium Hyperloop Passenger Pods
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Washington, D.C., Becomes the First LEED Platinum City
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Technology
MIT Researcher Proposes Firebricks For Clean Energy Storage
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Material Research
Neri Oxman 3D Prints Glass at an Architectural Scale
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Research
The American Academy in Rome Names John Ochsendorf as Director
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Technology
MIT’s Mediated Matter Group Builds a Synthetic Apiary to Help Save Bees
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Podcast
MIT’s Skylar Tibbits on the Importance of Failure
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Technology
Neri Oxman Designs Rottlace, a Series of 3D-Printed Masks for Björk
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In Focus
Sean Collier Memorial
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Technology
MIT’s Neri Oxman on the True Beauty of 3D Printed Glass
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Education
Nader Tehrani Appointed Dean of Architecture at The Cooper Union
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Obituary
Charles Correa, “India’s Greatest Architect,” Dies at 84
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Technology
This Shape-Changing Display Brings Data to Life
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AIA Now
What’s going on for architects in Atlanta, Cambridge, New York, and Washington, D.C.
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Research
This Week in Research: Hands-Free CAD, Self-Assembling Furniture, and a Large-Scale Future for Nanomaterials
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Next Progressives
Next Progressives: Matter Design
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Mind & Matter
Conceptual Biomimetic, 3D-Printed Gear for Unsustainable Environments
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Mind & Matter
Conceptual Biomimetic, 3D-Printed Gear for Unsustainable Environments
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Technology
A Coating that Detects Defects in Concrete
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Technology
A Coating that Detects Defects in Concrete
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Technology
Battle of the ‘Bots
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Mind & Matter
The Transformative Potential of Local Warming
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Material Goods
A Rundown of the Latest Concrete Products, Research, and Applications
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aiavoices
Deep Dive
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Deep Dive
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Technology
New Research Touts Insulated Concrete Forms For Energy Efficiency
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The Architect 50
2009 Architect 50 – No. 1 – William Rawn Associates
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