Emergent technologies and design : towards a biological paradigm for architecture
Hensel, Michael & others
Emergent technologies and design : towards a biological paradigm for architecture - London & New York Routledge 2010 - 256p.
CONTENTS Preface 4 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Part 1Theoretical framework 23 1 Evolution and computation 25 2 Material systems, computational morphogenesis and performative capacity 43 3 Material systems and environmental dynamics feedback 63 Part 2: Research 83 4 Fibres 85 5 Textiles 101 6 Nets 117 7 Lattices 137 8 Branches 155 9 TCeiis 175 10 Mass components 195 11 Casts 211 12 Aggregates 227 Bibliography 243 Project credits 247 Author biographies 250 Index 254
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Emergent technologies and design : towards a biological paradigm for architecture - London & New York Routledge 2010 - 256p.
CONTENTS Preface 4 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Part 1Theoretical framework 23 1 Evolution and computation 25 2 Material systems, computational morphogenesis and performative capacity 43 3 Material systems and environmental dynamics feedback 63 Part 2: Research 83 4 Fibres 85 5 Textiles 101 6 Nets 117 7 Lattices 137 8 Branches 155 9 TCeiis 175 10 Mass components 195 11 Casts 211 12 Aggregates 227 Bibliography 243 Project credits 247 Author biographies 250 Index 254
0415493447
721 / HEN