PHILADELPHIA – Made from 75,000 interconnected cable zip-ties, “Branching Morphogenesis,” simulates the predicted network generated by human lung cells as they interact with an extracellular matrix in three-dimensional space and time. Designed and produced by the Sabin+Jones LabStudio at Penn, “Branching Morphogenesis” allows visitors to walk through a giant three-dimensional “datascape,” encapsulating the way in […]

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the […]

For the past few years, I have been applying the analytic thinking of a scientist to find basic laws for architecture and urbanism, following the lead of my friend, the brilliant architectural theorist Christopher Alexander. The results derived so far show that a building, or city, is subject to the same organizational laws as a […]

Convoluted Flesh The convoluted (i.e. overlapped, intertwined and blurred) nature of contemporary architectural design, as we understand it, goes beyond the functions of opulence and intricacy, of technique and simulation, of module and optimisation. It invokes something ranking above notions of beauty, style, and elegance – it evokes the sublime, the blissful and the mysterious. […]

-Concept iteration; space carved within stacked tube cube. Grasshopper definition.

Archimorph has joined verS in the 2010 NYC Sukkah City competition. ‘Sukkah City: New York City’ will re-imagine this ancient phenomenon, develop new methods of material practice and parametric design, and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists will be selected by a panel of celebrated architects, designers, […]

-TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and — wait for it — meat.-TED

Concept design for H9 bar ceiling using glass liquor bottles suspended from the steel structure. The alternative iteration employs an image-based circle packing technique to aggregate polycarbonate tubes of various diameters and lengths into a cloud-like form above the bar. Other possibilities are being explored.-JB

-In early 2011 Archimorph will be publishing their first book, self-titled; Archimorph Book I: Architecture, Biomimetics, Technology. More information will be available closer to the release date.-JB

“The sculpture acts in the tradition of the marginalized mid-century American medical doctor Wilhelm Reich who said “all plasmatic matter perceives, with or without sensory nerves. The amoeba has no sensory or motor nerves, and still it perceives…The terror of the total convulsion, of involuntary movement and spontaneous excitation is joined to the splitting up […]