CONTRIBUTORS

摘要

Rachel Armstrong is a co-director of the Advanced Virtual And Technological Architectural Research (AVATAR) group, specialising in architecture and synthetic biology at the Department of Architecture and Landscape, University of Greenwich, London. She is also a 2010 Senior TED Fellow, and a visiting research assistant at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark. She is a sustainability innovator who investigates a new approach to building materials called 'living architecture', which suggests it is possible for our buildings to share some of the properties of living systems. Her TEDBook, Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, is available as a Kindle single on the Nook, i-Book and Kindle platforms.