Founded in 2011 by Ruairi Glynn, Bob Sheil, and Marilena Skavara, FABRICATE is an international platform dedicated to exploring how digital design and fabrication are reshaping architecture as a living, adaptive practice. Through conferences, exhibitions, and a celebrated series of open-access books—downloaded more than 346,000 times to date—FABRICATE has brought together leading voices in architecture, engineering, and art to rethink how buildings are conceived, made, and inhabited.
Our domain FABRICATE.org is growing as the industry landmark resource for innovations in large scale digital fabrication. A place where makers showcase their work through stunning stories, presented in-depth, focusing both on process and results. Using new formats, seamlessly blending video, text, high resolution imagery and interactive infographics, the stories will present an ongoing visual overview of the status of the works, the achievements, lessons learnt, next steps and more.
FABRICATE’s relationship with practice and academia is fundamental. The platform offers ongoing exposure and publicity, while encouraging new authors to submit work for each subsequent conference whilst building long lasting partnerships with sponsors and patrons. Our next venture will be announced in due course, meanwhile please delve into the 160 projects captured so far through our five books that are free to download, and do get in touch with us if you are interested in becoming a part of this space.
University College London (2011), ETH Zurich (2014), University of Stuttgart (2017), Online (2020), Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen (2023)
Prof Bob Sheil & Marilena Skavara