# Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 7 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/RachelArmstrong_2009G)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/RachelArmstrong_2009G?play=1)