Is there a danger that in inventing protocells we are turning away too quickly from nature’s own ‘beautifully engineered self-assembly system’?

Senior Partner Bill Watts asks us to take another look at the possibilities of biology for creating a wholly sustainable architecture that takes its aesthetic prompts from natural forms.

This counterpoint argument was written as part of Architectural Design's Protocell Architecture issue, released in March 2011. 

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