Biology might seem like a discipline unrelated to construction. But nature self-organizes to build itself in fascinatingly complex ways. Gizem Gumuskaya brings together design aspects from synthetic biology to advance engineering methods that could one day construct self-organizing structures. She talks with Catherine De Wolf about falling in love with lab work as an architecture student, which led her to this new frontier of engineering and architecture.

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Interview by Catherine De Wolf. Produced and edited by Jennifer Bartmess. Music by Coma Media. © Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture at ETH Zurich