Photo © J.B. Spector | Museum of Science and Industry
Lego is the great equalizer. It requires no skill to wield, unlike CAD software or cardboard models. So when the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) shipped boxes of Lego bricks to some of the top architecture firms in the world, what it got back…was a series of 10 models that any eight-year-old could have built…
The results [include] a scalable, infinite lattice by Skidmore Owings and Merrill, which illustrates how architects can use minimal, simple materials to build complex structures in a resource-scarce future.