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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago

iris van herpen's colossal body of intricate work on view at the brooklyn museum

The Brooklyn Museum's Iris Van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses is organized by the natural themes from which the Dutch designer draws her inspiration. It opens with water, which she describes as 'the origin of life'. ' It's the most vital material that we have on our planet,' she notes. From there, the galleries move from the microscopic world toward the macroscopic, building a sequence that links cellular life, marine structures, anatomy, consciousness, and planetary scale.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 days ago

seamless architecture book explores continuous surfaces through bio-inspired design research

Seamless Architecture treats walls, roofs, and sometimes floors as continuous surfaces, using bio-inspired, parametric, and computational methods to unify structure, material, and environment.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
8 months ago

MIT develops robotic bee that can flip and hover, and could pollinate plants on other planets someday - Yanko Design

MIT developed a paperclip-weight bee-like robot that flaps wings up to 400 times per second, reaches 2 m/s, can flip and hover for hard-to-reach missions.
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