Rachel Armstrong

Curator and moderator of the conference “It’s nice to be in orbit!” – Meta.Morf 2016

Rachel Armstrong, professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University, designs lifelike environments for the built environment using technologies that manipulate the building blocks of life such as synthetic biology and smart chemistry. Rachel Armstrong is TWOTY Futurist of the year 2015 and a 2010 Senior TED Fellow. Her new book, Vibrant Architecture (Matter as CoDesigner of Living Structures), explores prospects for transformations of matter into habitable structures, which prompts a re-evaluation of how we think about sustainability in our homes and cities.
[The book can be downloaded as a PDF for free from the DeGruyter Open website Vibrant Architecture]