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engineering nature's morphogenetic power is the next design frontier

and it is in this frontier we will create self-constructing living architectures by design.

Hi, my name is Gizem Gumuskaya, I am a synthetic biologist and architect, currently completing my PhD in Biology (defending in Fall'23). I bring together design and biology to develop self-constructing living architectures by design—from tiny biological robots (in my research today) to large-scale, autonomously-built, carbon-negative buildings oneday (soon!).

After completing my undergraduate studies in Architecture at Istanbul Technical University in 2015, I moved on to grad school at MIT where I completed a dual master's degree in Architecture and Synthetic Biology (2015-18), followed by a PhD in Biology at Tufts University & Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering.

I chose to pursue my formal training both in Architecture and Biology, because I strongly believe that to truly unleash what biology has to offer to architects and designers, a deeper understanding of the morphogenetic powers of nature is absolutely critical.

Nature has …

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