A husband-and-wife team has taken home the first Gehry Prize
from the Southern California Institute of Architecture for
exceptional thesis projects (named for the architect Frank) not
for a particular architectural design but for creating a unique
method of 3-D printing that allows the user to alter the design
in progress, creating a physical model of streaming information.
Conventional 3-D printing generally works by precisely
depositing thin layers of heated, extruded plastic or resin one
atop the other based on a 3-D digital model of the desired
object. Another kind of additive manufacturing, known as
stereolithography, builds objects using light-sensitive resins
and some kind of light source (a laser, a UV projector, etc.)
that precisely cures the liquid resin into a solid (generally
creating objects from the top down rather than the bottom up).
Liz and Kyle von Hasseln's project, known as Phantom Geometry,
is of the latter mode, but its also executed on a huge scale.
And where most printers stick firmly