After building a bamboo dome in the Summer of 2000, I submitted a paper together with Bruce Lonnman to the ACSA conference. Based on the presentation in Baltimore, I was invited to participate in the On growth and form conference later in the same year.

Bertin, Vito; Lonnman, Bruce.
A Study of Form: Mutually Supported Stick Structures,
Proceedings of the 89th ACSA Annual Meeting (2001): 516-21.

Bertin, Vito.
Variations of Lever Beam Structures,
On Growth and Form: the Engineering of Nature (2001): 10.