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Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / James Harris.

By: Publication details: U.S.A : University of New Mexico Press, c2012.Description: xi, 410 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780826352019 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780826352026 (electronic)
Other title:
  • Organic design philosophy in theory and practice
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9/495 23 H313
LOC classification:
  • NA2760 .H37 2012
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-398) and index.

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.