When famed architect Frank Gehry agreed to design The Grand, a $1-billion, mixed-use complex in downtown Los Angeles, the construction team expected something unconventional. After all, Gehry had ...
A new approach to producing metamaterials draws on kirigami techniques to make three-dimensional, reconfigurable building blocks that can be used to create complex, dynamic structures. Because the ...
In my August 2021 column, I introduced the composites building block approach as a step-by-step series of mechanical tests of increasing complexity, coupled with analyses performed at each step, that ...
Architecture as a profession is perceived to be one replete with glamour, accessorized with awards and basking in glory. However, for most, the reality of designing splendid spaces and establishing ...
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Albert Einstein played with these building blocks as a child. Here’s how they helped shape his magnificent mind
Albert Einstein spent his life trying to understand how the universe was built—its hidden order, its baffling symmetries, the strange ways space and time could bend. Long before the German physicist’s ...
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