Essays: Towards a new architect: an interview with Carlo Ratti

I’ve just finished working with Carlo Ratti and various cohorts on a great little project, which I hope might see the light of day here before too long (update: here it is.) In the meantime, I thought I’d post this discussion I had with Carlo late last year, which was recently published in Architectural Review […]

Robert Miles Kemp (Postopolis! LA)

Robert Miles Kemp’s talk was always interesting and occasionally spellbinding, most of all when showing the work in responsive robotic structures. His videos of simple blocks self-assembling into what he called “nano-architecture” are quite extraordinary (sometimes eliciting a collective delight similar to that of The Living at Postopolis! NYC). Kemp situated this within a wider context […]