Living Architecture, by TED Fellow Rachael Armstrong, Explores How We Can Re-Imagine Cities of the Furture
What will the city of the future look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks. In Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, British designer and architect Rachel Armstrong re-imagines the world’s extensive urban areas and argues that in order to achieve sustainable development of the built environment -- and help countries like Japan recover from natural disasters -- we need to begin rethinking how we approach architecture. Armstrong sets the scene for fundamentally different ways of making structures and materials, suggesting that we can ‘grow’ more ecologically compatible buildings by using life-like technologies, such as protocells. The result is a new kind of architectural practice where cities behave more like an evolving ecosystem than a lifeless machine.
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