TED Talks

Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

TV-PG
2009 • E185    Oct 27, 2009    10m
Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.

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