• Media type: Book; Still Image
  • Title: Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice
  • Contains: Introduction -- Man, nature, and architecture. The journey from mathematical monsters to the key to nature's structure -- The human desire for nature -- Nature's order and its architectural embodiment -- Skyscraper form and its fractal derivative -- Nature and human cognition. Gestalt and the wholeness of fractal structure -- Perception and cognition of natural form -- The universal quality of fractal expression -- The abstract trajectory to the fractal modernist form -- Architecture from nature. Nature's generative character -- Elements of fractal form -- The fractal confluence of science and art -- The spectrum of architecture's relationship to nature.
    Introduction -- Man, nature, and architecture. The journey from mathematical monsters to the key to nature's structure -- The human desire for nature -- Nature's order and its architectural embodiment -- Skyscraper form and its fractal derivative -- Nature and human cognition. Gestalt and the wholeness of fractal structure -- Perception and cognition of natural form -- The universal quality of fractal expression -- The abstract trajectory to the fractal modernist form -- Architecture from nature. Nature's generative character -- Elements of fractal form -- The fractal confluence of science and art -- The spectrum of architecture's relationship to nature.
    Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Contributor: Harris, James [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012
  • Extent: xi, 410 Seiten; Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780826352019
  • RVK notation: ZH 4680 : Transparente Bauten, Leichte Bauten, Membranbauten, Pneumatische Konstruktionen
  • Keywords: Fraktalgeometrie > Architektur > Design > Natur > Naturverständnis > Wahrnehmungspsychologie
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  • Footnote: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 397 - 398

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