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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Alternative Materials
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Bioplastics
Plastic Wants to Be Alive—But It’s Killing the Planet
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Mind & Matter
Color Revolution: How Cutting-edge Smart Materials Are Redefining Design Aesthetics and Functionality
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Mind & Matter
Suzanne Tick Is Reshaping Textiles
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Mind & Matter
Product Manufacturers Are Looking to the Ocean for Resources
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Mind & Matter
New Building in Germany Demonstrates Advances in Textile Architecture
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Mind & Matter
Materials Science Is Starting to Reap the Benefits of AI
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Mind & Matter
How Can We Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Bricks?
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Mind & Matter
Exterior and Interior Surfaces Can Help Mitigate Air Pollution
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Mind & Matter
Advances in Fabric Technology Point to a Promising Future
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Mind & Matter
Is There New Hope for Plastic?
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Mind & Matter
East Palestine Disaster Raises New Questions About Reliance on Toxic Materials
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Mind & Matter
Will Forests Drive the Hydrogen Economy?
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Mind & Matter
Hemp: The Next Disruptor in Construction After Wood?
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Technology
The Biowaste Revolution
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HIVE Re:Think Podcast
Straight from Mars: On-Site, On-Demand, Custom Construction
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Mind & Matter
Innovative Products and Materials to Watch in 2020
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Henning Larsen to Design All-Timber Neighborhood in Copenhagen
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Mind & Matter
Notable Advancements in Mutating Materials
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Mind & Matter
Repurposing Carbon for the Built Environment
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podcast
How After Architecture Balances Practice with Materials Research
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Mind & Matter
Exploring Biobased Materials for Insulation
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Mind & Matter
Future Strategies for Next Generation Energy Savings
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Mind & Matter
Bridging the Sustainable Materials Knowledge Gap
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Competitions
What Design Can Do and IKEA Foundation Announce Clean Energy Challenge Shortlist
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Mind & Matter
Material Trends to Watch in 2019
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Mind & Matter
Repurposing Food Waste as Alternative Building Materials
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Mind & Matter
Reflecting on the Future of Fabrication
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Mind & Matter
Antifragility: One-Upping Resilient Design
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Mind & Matter
Recycled Plastic Building Products to Save Our Planet
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Mind & Matter
Concrete, It’s Electric!
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Mind & Matter
Wine Be Damned, Cork Is For Building
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Is Apple Building Another U.S. Campus?
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Mind & Matter
Alternative Photovoltaic Systems for the Houses of the Future
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Technology
This Week in Tech: 3D-Printed Self-Folding Materials
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Mind & Matter
A Backwards Approach to Material Innovation
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Throwback Thursday
Real News About Fake Materials
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Mind & Matter
Alternative Wood Products and Processing Methods to Watch
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Tesla to Help Build the World’s Largest Virtual Power Plant in South Australia
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This Week in Tech: Tesla to Help Build the World’s Largest Virtual Power Plant in South Australia
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Mind & Matter
Dazed and … Constructed? How Hemp Could Alter Material Selections in Architecture
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Dubai to Construct the World’s Largest Waste-to-Power Plant
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Amazon Go Opens Cashier-Less Store in Seattle
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Mind & Matter
Material Trends to Watch in 2018
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This Week in Tech: Apple’s Homecoming
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This Week in Tech: Rethinking Housing for the Homeless
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Could Mindspace Give WeWork a Run for Its Money?
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Mind & Matter
The Materials Industry Is Pitching In to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Product Exceptions
Alternate Materials and Methods: The Hoops of Specifying Green Products
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Technology
This Week in Tech: An Electric Highway for Green Transportation
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This Week in Tech: Concrete Reinforced with Water Bottle Waste
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Technology
Can Food Waste be Turned into Building Materials? Arup Thinks So.
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Climate Change
Material Strategies for Sustainable Construction
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Material Innovation
Reusable, Freeze-Dried Foam That Can Absorb Carbon Dioxide
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MIND AND MATTER
Expanding Innovative Materials to New Markets
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Technology
Illuminating Fiber Enters Lighting Ecosystem
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Book Review
The Next Generation of Materials
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Mind & Matter
ALED Self-Illuminating Glass: Windows and Beyond
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Products
The Re-emergence of Tangible Light
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Mind & Matter
Metals in the 21st Century: Smarter, Lighter, Stronger
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Products
Object of the Moment: Trending Terazzo by Bottle-Up
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Data Showing Urban Inequality Takes Shape as Stunning Prints
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Mind & Matter
Improving New Ideas by Building on Old Concepts
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This Week in Tech: Material ConneXion Reveals Design Materials of the Future
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Products
Object of the Moment: PaperBricks by WooJai Lee
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The Annual Earth Overshoot Day Came Early, Again
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This Week in Tech: When Architecture Was an Olympic Event
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Mind & Matter
Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Architectural Authenticity
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Podcast
MIT’s Skylar Tibbits on the Importance of Failure
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Competitions
Architecture and Design Students Test Their Mettle with Mass Timber
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2016 R+D Awards
R+D Awards Honorable Mention: Grove
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2016 R+D Awards
R+D Awards Honorable Mention: Infundibuliforms—Kinetic Tensile Surface Environments
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2016 R+D Awards
R+D Awards Citation: Spray-On House
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Google’s New App for Art, Architecture
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Architectural Lighting
Seven Luminaires Powered by Alternative Energy
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Products
Lighting on the Go
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BUILDER
New Home Buyers Will Choose Energy-Efficiency Over Luxury Features
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This Week in Tech: Architects Mimic Erosion to Build Land Art
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Mind & Matter
When Architecture, Art, and Biology Collide
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AIA Now
What Materials Mean
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Mind & Matter
Materials Research With a Social Focus
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Products
The Risk of Knowing What’s Actually Inside the Products You Specify
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GALLUP
Gallup: Americans Prefer Alternative Energy
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CLEANTECHNICA
Recovering Heat From Sewage Creates a New Energy Source
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‘Ceramic Tectonics’ Makes a Case for Customization
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Technology
These Palm Tree-Like Turbine Blades Are Key to Cost-Effective Offshore Energy
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Technology
Five Cutting-Edge Building Materials to Watch in 2016
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Cal Poly Pomona Architecture Students Crowdfund a Community Garden
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Build New York’s Skyline Out of Legos
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This Week in Tech: Better Audio Wayfinding for Transit
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This Week in Tech: Apple’s New Survey App Maps Interior Plans
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Products
Meet the Future of 3D-Printed Buildings
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Mind & Matter
The Architect as the Orchestrator of Information
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Technology
A Mid-Century Modern-esque Inflatable Chair
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A Few of Our Favorite 3D-Printed Pavilions
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This Week in Tech: Building Blocks That Think for Themselves
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Products
Throwback Thursday: Looking Back at the Rise of Metal in Construction
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Green Cities as an Equation
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Italian Startup Unveils 40-Foot-Tall 3D Printer
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Mind & Matter
DIY Design Makers Are Taking On Materials
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Technology
Autodesk and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Take on Micro-Scale 3D Printing
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This Week in Tech: MIT Makes a Multi-Material 3D Printer
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This Week in Tech: Bjarke Ingels Group Crowdfunds a Designer Cloud Factory
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This Week in Tech: Apple’s Proposed Stylus Colors the World
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Products
Natural Minerals Could Replace Cement in Masonry Units
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Technology
This Week in Tech: A House That Dresses for the Weather
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Technology
This Week in Tech: Facebook’s Drone
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Mind & Matter
Arachnid Architecture as Human Shelter
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This Week in Tech: Plastic Pavement
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This Week in Tech: Infrastructure, the Video Game
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Technology
Delays Plague Plan to 3D Print New York Estate
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Mind & Matter
Architecture and the Airpocalypse
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2015 R+D Awards
First Award: Pulp Pavilion
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This Week in Tech: How NYC’s Lowline Plans to Bring the Sun Underground
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This Week in Tech: James Cameron is Taking on Solar-Panel Design
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This Week in Tech: Rethinking the Empire State Building in Wood
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The Promise of Nanomaterials in Architecture
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This Week in Tech: Building With Bamboo
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The Architect’s Role in Material Conservation
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Mind & Matter
Rethinking Rebar
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This Week in Tech: Building with Bacteria
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This Week in Tech: Autodesk Takes on Virtual Reality
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This Week in Tech: Gummy Bear Glass
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AIA Feature
Fighting for the Driver’s Seat
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3D Printing
Autodesk Invests $10M in Carbon3D’s Advanced 3D Printing Technology
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This Week in Tech: The Science Behind Valyrian Steel
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The Future of Plastics in Architecture
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This Week in Tech
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Teaching Nature-Based Design to Architecture Students
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Installations
Torqueing Spheres by IK Studio Wins 2015 Folly Program
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Technology
U.C. Berkeley Researchers 3D Print a Cement-Powder Pavilion
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Research
This Week in Research: Illuminating Cities at Night, Detecting Structural Defects, and a Light-Sensing Digital Eye
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Research
This Week in Research: Infrastructure-Mapping Drones, Robotic Roaches, and Stronger Steel
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Research
This Week in Research: Self-Planning Streets, Wind Turbines On the Eiffel Tower, and a Knock-Activated Lock
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Mind & Matter
Using Additive Manufacturing to Build With Materials Sourced From the Jobsite
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Product Beat
These Interior Products Deserve a Double-Take
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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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