Arts, design, architecture & planning
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
By Skylar Tibbits, associate professor of architecture and co-director of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab
Princeton University Press · 2021
Today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. This book describes how these materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment.
From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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