Both devices combine top-notch specs with beautiful industrial design -- pure rectangular forms with a mirror-like finish packaged in thin, light and water-resistant shells.
Simple Forms, a small design firm in Porto, has won recognition for its elegant cork-rubber bathroom sink.
Printing in 3D involves sending a design file to a printer that then forms a solid version of that object by slowly building it up in layers of plastic.
Roth has used modified forms of this same algorithm to design matching systems for Boston's public school system and for placing medical school graduates with residency programs.
It forms part of a wider Philips Design's Microbial Home project which imagines an "integrated cyclical ecosystem" in the home where traditional waste is recycled to address sustainability issues.
The museums, two of the world's most prominent, said in a joint statement the New York-based e-business would provide Internet access for people to learn about and purchase many forms of art and architectural models and design objects, beginning in late 2000 or early 2001.
Critics of the design, put off by its sharply folded and angled forms and irregular, slashed openings, find it an alien invader.
Can these very forms, supported by social media and new technologies, now extend to urban design and planning?
SoftWide's kiosks hold more than 2, 000, including programs to help people learn yoga, stop smoking, design a garden, prepare for a driving test, write business plans and complaint letters or fill in government forms.
With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
WSJ: New Guggenheim: Art and Architecture as One | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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