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We all have something to love at some place we know — the daisy curtains at grandma’s, the dining table where we always revisit childhood, the seashell decor at home that brings us back to our Miami trip… They knitted together our childhood, our memories, and our lives. They made up where we live and who we are.
Homes all have souls. And there’s a Spanish 3D-printing artist, Professor Diego Garcia Cuevas, injecting souls into our homes. With his hands, feelings and dreams are weaved into lamps, chairs, decors… Unlike any other 3D printing farm in the world, his Grasshopper-based studio is all about artsfor homes, 3D-printed in a non-planar fashion, for your porch and your nightstand, for your dinners with loved ones, for your Sunday afternoons and quiet nights.
From the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to TV shows, from plazas to homes, his works bring a touch of art to numerous places, making them places to love and remember for many. All Rhino-based, which also sets them apart from others, his artworks pioneer non-planar 3D printing with innovative materials. Clay, cement, resin, flexible clay fabrics… All bold testaments to how far human’s imagination can span and reach. 3Dprinting and customizing, he embeds gallery-style art into homes and everyday life. Artist, professor, architect, Rhino lover — he’s the man who believes in the stunning blend of techs and arts, among countless makers around the world, all with genuine makership spirit.
From Galleries to Living Rooms: We All Deserve a Place of Our Own
For anyone from any cultural background, Diego’s works are always something to wow you — it’s bold, it’s tranquil and it’s unique. Lines and curves. Simplistic geometry. “It has character”, like there’s many stories behind and more stories to be told. From the Phoenician clay pots to the serenity of Japanese Karesansui gardens, all cultures might all share something: minimalist, timeless, tributes to nature. It’s what we want for the place we call home — exactly what Diego has been designing and 3D-printing.
Unlike artworks at museums or auctions, his art is for everyone and every home. Amid today’s hustle and bustle in this screen-dominated world, we might sometimes find ourselves lost in all these to-dos, far far away from those pink kisses of the sun in the town we grew up, or the sunrises and forests that soothed us — almost all are trapped in homes mass-produced at assembly lines, packed with stuffs from furniture chains, unlike the wooden tables or local decors from our rosy memories that we still remember today.
His works are born to change all this, injecting art and aesthetics into almost everything at home. Personal. Stylish. All 3D-printed. Voronoi-enabled calla lilies lamps, rainbowbased toddlers’ chairs, parametric-design-based tv show bars... Not the mass-produced ones we make do with, but the home we actually deserve, which reminds us of who we are and what we love.
When 3D Printing Meets Grasshopper
From curtain walls to sculptures, his works innovate and impress, in front of which all can feel the striking emotions flowing and glowing. Yet unlike his predecessor artists, he takes the digital way — the 3D-printed way. Behind these furniture-slash-artworks, there’s designs modelled with Grasshopper from scratch. This add-on of Rhinoceros 3D, a personal favorite of Diego, is the powerhouse for almost all his 3D-printed works. This preference lies in how he can generate printable GCODE right from Grasshopper,entirely bypassing the need for slicing software. So it naturally became the painting brush for this artist. From the shapes of clouds in hiking one day to the 3D prints based
on that, from moments to prints, there’s just some clicks away. From one’s dreams to one’s front yards, he translates the nuances and memories of our lives into what we touch, where we dine and what we wake up to.
Just like people from any background all find themselves amazed in front of pyramids and Notre-Dame of Paris, the universal aesthetic language in his works is also appreciated and loved by many. From Expo 2025 Osaka to exhibitions in Spain, his 3Dprinted artworks come and touch countless souls. From UCL to the International University of Catalonia, lectures and panels themed on his works are booming within and beyond Spain.
Now you may wonder — how did he get there? On this journey, there have been a lot of “whys”. Professor at Universidad Europea Madrid, co-director at Controlmad, author of Advanced 3D printing with Grasshopper, Rhino lover… All these journeys sent him here.
“My first foray into the world of 3D printing came when I was a graduate student of Biodigital Architecture at the International University of Catalonia,” says Diego. “Then came along the kaleidoscope of digital manufacturing for me. Trust me, I was awed by how 3D printing can make the impossible possible.”
Love at first sight.
Little did he know how this would send him spiraling down the rabbit hole of nonplanar 3D printing with novel materials like clay. Then years of dives in this realm earned him bumper harvests of works and designs. So during the pandemic, when everything came to a halt, he decided to sit back and pool such practices into a book — Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper: Clay and FDM. And it was a whirlwind; just a simple intro video of this masterwork recorded over 500,000 views on YouTube. Spanning 209 pages, this book on non-conventional paths for 3D printers goes into details of almost all the possibilities of directly generating G-code in Grasshopper without scripts or plug-ins, hence 3D modeling on Grasshopper. Here, what 3D printing does is bridging the gap between imagination and reality — any line, any curve, any shape… They can jump right from your mind to your prints. “From granular materials to clay or cement, from furniture to homes, any design can be 3D-printed,” Diego explains. “Free as the wind.”
Yep, He’s a Maker
The artworks and practices in his book is only a miniature of how he creates and innovates. Such makership spirit of Diego is everywhere in his life — he started from CNC milling, he dived deep into robotic clay 3D printing, he created a paradigm shift that took 3D printing from a stiff, geek-only practice into a versatile art form...
It’s been a wild ride. A boundaryless one.
And as a professor, he brought generations of students into this game. In the 3D-printed artworks by his students, be them sculptures or furniture, you can always sense the same chicness and simplicity. These lines and shades stretch and grow at someone’s home, like flowers in full blossom.
Such artworks offered more than aesthetics. They come together as emotionally charged environments — somewhere to love, to place our jubilance and broken hearts, a place we feel safe to be ourselves. For him, it’s all about building the life we love, just like the bicycle support he created with 3D printing scraps — “Finally, the bicycles found their place at the Atelier.”
And just like any maker, he sees his footprint in 3D printing extend and grow. When he fell for a silhouette of some landscape, he would turn that shape into an artistic coffee cup. When he lost himself in a song, he would create something with the same vibe for the house, something his children might still remember 30 years later. He collects and recreates such gems of life — all enabled by 3D printing.
