Background on Skylar Tibbits. Skylar Tibbits is a co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab housed at MIT’s International Design Center. The Self-Assembly Lab focuses on self-assembly and ...

Skylar Tibbits and his colleagues at MIT's Self-Assembly Lab are working on materials that transform over time in all sorts of useful ways.

Skylar Tibbits, Director, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, on 4-D printing and imaging things that make themselves. Plus: Los Angeles protestors set Waymos alight while opposing Trump's immigration raids ...

This month, Skylar Tibbits, director of the MIT Self-Assembly lab, was named as one of the six Architectural League winners for collaborative research into programmable materials.

On November 2-4, ACADIA will host its annual conference at MIT. Ahead of the proceedings, The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) spoke with one of this year’s organizers, Skylar Tibbits, Assistant ...

MR: You have combined smart materials with 3-D printing to create “4-D printing.” What is that? ST: At first, the name was a bit of a joke. When you 3-D-print an object, it’s a fixed, static ...