It stopped being alive and it never stopped moving. Here are fifteen.
1. It Is a Bundle of Tubes, Not a Solid
Wood is built from long hollow cells that…
Corrugated board is one of those inventions so completely ordinary that it is hard to see as an invention at all. Something like a hundred billion boxes are made from…
There is a way of making things that works from the inside out, and it produces shapes no other method can.
Almost every other approach is subtractive or formative: material…
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There is a building material available almost everywhere, requiring no processing, no fuel and no transport, and a very large proportion of the world's population has lived in houses…
There is a small category of materials that are not assembled from anything, and felt is the oldest of them.
Almost every fabric is made of threads. Spinning turns loose…
Everything is built around a solid form, and everything afterwards is a set of conflicting requirements settled in a particular way. Here are fifteen decisions inside any pair.
1. It…