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 & Merrill. Take look at their stuff, you wont be disappointed. Continue reading → Boston will be hosting a very exciting conference entitled the International Bionic Engineering Conference this coming September. For all those interested please visit the website. The keynote is none other than Dr. Julian Vincent which many of you might know from the biomimetics group at Bath University in Germany. Anyone that goes please let us [...] Continue reading → 
Professor Jenny E. Sabin of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Peter Lloyd Jones Ph.D. in pathology at the same school established Sabin+Jones (also know as LabStudios) in 2007, a biological architecture collaboration looking to apply cutting edge research in cell biology to the built environment. The level these guys [...] Continue reading → Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation Design Competition has announced their winner for 2011: A scientist that claims to have devised a system to build bricks using bacteria, sand and one commonly found not so convential ingredient: urine. Continue reading → Michael McCune and Casidy Keim of Lousiana Tech explore the translation between digital modeling, cnc production and fabrication in their project entitled Modulated Lattice 5. Unlike some other more strictly theoretical projects we’ve seen, the students made an effort to actually build the project in the form of a outdoor classroom located in the Piney [...] Continue reading →