Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice /
Harris, James,
Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / Organic design philosophy in theory and practice James Harris. - U.S.A : University of New Mexico Press, c2012. - xi, 410 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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.
9780826352019 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780826352026 (electronic)
2011041452
Geometry in architecture.
NA2760 / .H37 2012
704.9/495 / H313
Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / Organic design philosophy in theory and practice James Harris. - U.S.A : University of New Mexico Press, c2012. - xi, 410 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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.
9780826352019 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780826352026 (electronic)
2011041452
Geometry in architecture.
NA2760 / .H37 2012
704.9/495 / H313