AI-generated art has advanced so much recently, it’s winning first prize in fine arts competitions meant for human artists. Programs like DALL-E and Midjourney make it possible to produce surprisingly ...

For prices starting around $13,000, Amazon Treehouses will design you a getaway in the boughs of your favorite tree. Quick, what were your favorite scenes from The Lord of the Rings? The ones with the ...

Behind the dazzling variety of shapes and forms in trees lies a remarkably similar architecture based on fundamental, shared principles, ecologists have discovered. The findings allow scientists to ...

A problem facing architects when designing complex three-dimensional structures lies in their joints, which must be strong enough to take the loads and vector forces applied by the structure, yet ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 211, No. 2 (1999), pp. 241-258 (18 pages) A low-magnetic-field digitising device combined with AMAPmod, a software designed to analyse plant architecture, provided a very ...

We’ve seen trees molded to form fantastic living chairs before, and now a young group of German architects are bending trees to their will to form a new breed of living architecture. The team is ...

Conceptual architecture can be a lot of things. It can be a realistic, yet novel, skyscraper or it can be an extremely unreal imagining seemingly straight out of a science fiction movie. We've seen a ...

Fall in New York is my favorite season for one reason—it means it’s time once again for Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference (Oct. 6-7), where we get to hear reports from the outer—and ...

Is it possible to feel marooned in a wilderness hideaway in the middle of Los Angeles? It is if you are inhabiting the experimental home that architect Bernard Judge built for himself in the 1970s.

Already one of Brooklyn’s most interesting developments, the Domino Sugar Refinery is going in a surprising new direction. Unable to find a tenant for the landmarked 1882 Domino Sugar Refinery ...

Plant hydraulic architecture (PHA) has been linked to water transport sufficiency, photosynthetic rates, growth form and attendant carbon allocation. Despite its influence on traits central to ...