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003			MEMOS
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008			111003s2012 nmua b s001 0 eng
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020			_a9780826352019 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a9780826352026 (electronic)
040			_aMEMOS _cMEMOS _dDLC _beng
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050	0	0	_aNA2760 _b.H37 2012
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100	1		_aHarris, James,
245	1	0	_aFractal architecture : _borganic design philosophy in theory and practice / _cJames Harris.
246	3	0	_aOrganic design philosophy in theory and practice
260			_aU.S.A : _bUniversity of New Mexico Press, _cc2012.
300			_axi, 410 p. : _bcol. ill. ; _c28 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 397-398) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
650		0	_aGeometry in architecture.
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