Jenny E. Sabin, Jenny Sabin Studio
Recorded June 26, 2014
Jenny E. Sabin, Principal and Founder of Philadelphia-based Jenny Sabin Studio, is an architectural designer, artist, and educator. Her work, in her words, “investigates the intersection of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures.” Past projects include Branching Morphogenesis, a three-dimensional “datascape” made from 75,000 zip ties; Polymorph, a project exploring digital fabrication of ceramic form; and myThread Pavilion, a work commissioned by the Nike Flyknit Collective that transformed patterns of biological data into knitted structure.
Jenny Sabin Studio is one of the winners of the 2014 Architectural League Prize, one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum — through lectures, an exhibition, and a catalogue — for the exchange of their ideas.
In her League Prize lecture, Sabin describes the foundations of her work as applying conceptual models from biology and nature to architecture in a deep investigation of material systems and form. Also deeply influenced by the processes of weaving and knitting as well as her background in ceramics, Sabin works in partnership with scientists, artists, and others in a new model for transdisciplinary collaboration. She presents six projects: Foyer Tapestry, which weaves sound patterns in thread using a digitized jacquard loom; Branching Morphogenesis; eSkin, which investigates the building as an organism using passively responsive materials and sensors; Generative Fabrication, a prototype to print clay stoneware using 3D printing technology; Digital Ceramics: PolyMorph; and myThread Pavilion.
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