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Proto‐Design: Architecture's Primordial Soup and the Quest for Units of Synthetic Life
Author(s) -
Oxman Neri
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1217
Subject(s) - protocell , architecture , computer science , architectural engineering , engineering , history , chemistry , archaeology , biochemistry , membrane
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Neri Oxman is engaged on the Material‐Based Computation project. It takes an approach that can be regarded as analogous to protocells. It places a similar emphasis on material properties as intermediary agents for the built environment, containing the information for behaviour and evolution. Here she outlines three methods that define her research. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.