Material-Based Design
Neri Oxman describes how designers can engineer nature to produce products with continuous functional surfaces. A hybrid between natural processes and the component-based world. Features the 3D printing of a dragonfly wing of water-based polymers, a girdle containing a digestive ecosystem and the silkworm created sphere.
Sophie Robitaille’s MLA Thesis: Make Sense
Available at Architecture & Allied Arts Library: Ask at desk, Books (AAA Terminal Project 2527)
Textiles: Alternative Forms of Malleability by Rhett Russo & Katrin Mueller-Russo in Studies in Material Thinking
M&A is a research center dedicated to pushing new and underused ideas for landscape and architecture into view.