News — 3D Architecture

Taken from 3DPrint by Clare Scott The other day, I was talking to a friend about the arts and crafts projects we were assigned back in elementary school. It seems that some types of projects are universal – no matter where you went to school, if you’re of a certain age you probably were assigned the same kind of art projects that other kids everywhere were working on. One thing we both remember creating in grade school was “3D art” – which, in those days, involved carefully gluing crumpled bits of tissue paper onto a drawing to give it texture...

Designers worldwide are creating 3-D-printed buildings, furnishings and materials. Will we be seeing this trend in our own homes? Three-dimensional printing is one of the most talked-about technologies of this decade. Some consider it the beginning of the third industrial revolution, while others point out the constraints of the technique. Is 3-D printing changing our architecture, and is it the way we’ll design our homes in the future? Below, we look at the phenomenon of 3-D printing worldwide, including a delicate resin pavilion in China, classical-design-inspired concrete beams in Italy and buildings that “think” in Germany. Read more on Houzz.com