Evolution of designs : biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts (Record no. 54813)
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| fixed length control field | 01671 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780415447539 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 745.409 |
| Item number | STE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Steadman, Philip |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Evolution of designs : biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii,302p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>List of IIllustrations ix<br/>Acknowledgements xiii<br/>Preface to the revised edition xv<br/>1Introduction 1<br/>2. The Organic Analogy 8<br/>3. The Classificatory Analogy: Building Types and Natural Species 21<br/>4. The Anatomical Analogy: Engineering Structure and the Animal Skeleton 31<br/>5. The Ecological analogy : Trial and error in the evolution of artefacts and Organism 54<br/>6. The Darwinian Analogy: Trial and Error in the Evolution of Organisms and Artefacts 71<br/>7. The Evolution of Decoration 99<br/>8. Tools as Organs or as Extensions of the Physical Body 119<br/>9. How to Speed up Craft Evolution 131<br/>10. Design as Process of Growth 145<br/>11.Biotechnics: Plants and Animals as Inventors 153<br/>12. Hierarchical Strcuture and the Adaptive Process : Biological analogy in Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form 163<br/>13. The Consequences of the Biological Fallacy: Functional Determinism 179<br/>14. The Consequences of the Biological Fallacy: Historical determinism and the deniel of Tradition 201<br/>15. What Remains of the Analogy? The History and Science of the artificial 217<br/>Afterword : Developments since 1980 237<br/>Notes 274<br/>Index 295 <br/><br/> |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 62280 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FD |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Design | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 23/08/2019 | Astha Book Agency | 2845.00 | 7 | 3 | 745.409 STE | 020104 | 25/06/2024 | 11/06/2024 | 3555.86 | 14/09/2018 | Book |