Harris, James, <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-398) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826352019 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780826352026 (electronic) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011041452 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geometry in architecture.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2760  / .H37 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>704.9/495  / H313