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3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms that blow today's buildings out of the water

  • Written by James Rose, Director of the Institute for Smart Structures, University of Tennessee
3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms that blow today's buildings out of the waterHouse Zero in Austin, Texas, is a 2,000-square-foot home that was built with 3D-printed concrete.Lake Flato Architects

In architecture, new materials rarely emerge.

For centuries, wood, masonry and concrete formed the basis for most structures on Earth.

In the 1880s, the adoption of the steel frame changed architecture forever. Steel allowed...

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