Professor Philip Beesley's current research focuses on the architectural implications of dissipative adaptation and biogenesis at the boundary between mineral and organic realms, revealing fertile qualities. His lecture discusses these far-reaching integrative probes including poetic expressions, elemental kits and pattern languages that are providing paradigms, tools and frameworks for the emerging discipline of living architecture.
Can architecture integrate living functions? Could future buildings think, and care? The Living Architecture Systems Group brings together researchers and industry partners in a multidisciplinary research cluster dedicated to developing built environments with qualities that come close to life. The research of LAS has the potential to change how we build by transforming the physical structures that support buildings and the technical systems that control them.