<p>"Hy-Fi—the 42-foot-tall tower of fungi-grown bricks that stood outside MoMA PS1 in 2014 - remains emblematic of New York City - based the Living, the technology- and biology-forward practice led by architect David Benjamin. Yet, Hy-Fi is hardly the firm’s only project of note. Most recently, the firm designed a network of sensors in the East River (dubbed Pier 35 Eco-Park) that, if you signed up via text message, would regularly send updates on the river’s ecological health - including if fish were present near the sensors. The breadth of the Living’s projects and research are laid out in this image-rich tome that focuses on explaining the firm’s process and philosophy (sometimes with tech-y and academic inflections)." - <em>Metropolis</em></p>
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David Benjamin is founding principal of The Living and Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Benjamin's work combines research and practice focusing on the intersection of biology, computation, and design. Exploring these ideas through prototyping, Benjamin has articulated three frameworks for harnessing living organisms for architecture: bio-computing, bio-sensing, and bio-manufacturing. He and the firm have won numerous design prizes, including the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League, the New Practices Award from the AIA New York, the Young Architects Program Award from the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, and a Holcim Sustainability Award. Clients of The Living include Google, Nike, 3M, Airbus, BMW, the City of New York, Seoul Municipal Government, Miami Science Museum, and Björk.
Alejandro Zaera-Polo is a scholar and founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML).
Kevin Slavin is a pioneer in rethinking game design and development and teaches at the MIT Media Lab.
Eyal Weizman is an architect and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.