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Sheila Kennedy's Soft House
October 30, 2008
Sheila Kennedy architect

Sheila Kennedy’s approach to architecture invites us to reconsider the boundaries of the material world by integrating high technology and architecture. Her innovative multi-disciplinary design practice brings together experts in various fields to create design concepts with practical applications. Kennedy describes some of their projects, including the “Soft House”, which uses existing elements of home design such as curtains and gives them a new property: energy generation.

This lecture is part of the 2008 IDEAS Boston conference.

Art & Architecture | Science & Nature
Art & Architecture | central grid | Outbreak | photovoltaics | Semiconductors | Soft House | solid state lighting | 3D | Architecture | Energy & Conservation | Design
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