An unlikely collaboration between an architecture professor and a Brooklyn metalworking shop has the potential to change the shape of architecture.
"AlgoRhythms describes a method for folding a single sheet of metal into complex and elaborate forms...For more than 30 years [Haresh] Lalvani has located his career at the intersection of architecture, nature, and higher mathematics, where, he says, he is working to 'decode the architectural genome' and discover the elemental principles underlying natural and artificial form.
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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