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Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice

Harris, James
Books, Manuscripts
Imprint:
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012
Contents:
IntroductionMan, nature, and architecture. The journey from mathematical monsters to the key to nature's structureThe human desire for natureNature's order and its architectural embodimentSkyscraper form and its fractal derivativeNature and human cognition. Gestalt and the wholeness of fractal structurePerception and cognition of natural formThe universal quality of fractal expressionThe abstract trajectory to the fractal modernist formArchitecture from nature. Nature's generative characterElements of fractal formThe fractal confluence of science and artThe spectrum of architecture's relationship to nature
ISBN:
9780826352019
Dewey class:
729.0151474
Language:
English
BRN:
53287
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