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Author : Michael Jay Katz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pattern Biology and the Complex Architectures of Life written by Michael Jay Katz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Jay Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pattern Biology and the Complex Architectures of Life written by Michael Jay Katz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Sanderson
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080534112
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Homoplasy written by Michael J. Sanderson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-10-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do unrelated organisms sometimes appear almost identical in details of the anatomy, behavior, physiology, and ecology? Homoplasy assembles leaders in evolutionary biology to explore issues of parallelism, convergence, and reversals. This innovative book is certain to provoke discussion of homoplasy compelling evidence for particular theories of evolutionary change The first book on this increasingly interesting subject Includes authoritative treatments from leading experts expressing a variety of viewpoints
Author : Christina Cogdell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452958076
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Toward a Living Architecture? written by Christina Cogdell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture Toward a Living Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Starting from the assertion that we should take generative architects’ rhetoric of biology and sustainability seriously, Christina Cogdell examines their claims from the standpoints of the sciences they draw on—complex systems theory, evolutionary theory, genetics and epigenetics, and synthetic biology. She reveals significant disconnects while also pointing to approaches and projects with significant potential for further development. Arguing that architectural design today often only masquerades as sustainable, Cogdell demonstrates how the language of some cutting-edge practitioners and educators can mislead students and clients into thinking they are getting something biological when they are not. In a narrative that moves from the computational toward the biological and from current practice to visionary futures, Cogdell uses life-cycle analysis as a baseline for parsing the material, energetic, and pollution differences between different digital and biological design and construction approaches. Contrary to green-tech sustainability advocates, she questions whether quartzite-based silicon technologies and their reliance on rare earth metals as currently designed are sustainable for much longer, challenging common projections of a computationally designed and manufactured future. Moreover, in critiquing contemporary architecture and science from a historical vantage point, she reveals the similarities between eugenic design of the 1930s and the aims of some generative architects and engineering synthetic biologists today. Each chapter addresses a current architectural school or program while also exploring a distinct aspect of the corresponding scientific language, theory, or practice. No other book critiques generative architecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice. Based on the author’s years of field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this rare, field-building book does no less than definitively, unsparingly explain the role of the natural sciences within contemporary architecture.
Author : Michael J. Katz
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521306737
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns written by Michael J. Katz and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does the particular form or configuration of a pattern come from, and how is it propagated from pattern to pattern? Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns provides a natural language for analysing such questions. Using it, the organisational forces that underlie the fabrication of any pattern can be divided into two classes. First, there are the 'universal laws' of pattern assembly, the configurational rules and constraints inherent within the fabric of the pattern elements themselves. Second, there are the 'templets' - external, situational constraints imposed on the pattern elements. From the perspective of templeting, simple patterns can be directly contrasted with complex patterns: the former are completely determined by their universal laws, whereas the latter also require extensive templets. Natural patterns range along the entire spectrum from simple to complex, and the most complex of these include both random patterns and many biological patterns.
Author : Ilaria Mazzoleni
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466506091
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design written by Ilaria Mazzoleni and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-color volume proposes an innovative methodology that uses the functional aspects of nature to inspire improvements in building design and form, encouraging designers to apply biomimetic principles to architectural processes. The book focuses on the analysis of various animal skins, translating the principles of communication, thermoregulation, water balance, and protection into the built environment. Illustrating how biomimetic principles can create a more sustainable way of building, this is the first time the author's new methodology-as well as the 12 case studies-has been published.
Author : Tim Ireland
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031459253
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book From Life to Architecture, to Life written by Tim Ireland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.
Author : Lionel G. Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494457
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Shaping of Life written by Lionel G. Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological development, how organisms acquire their form, is one of the great frontiers in science. While a vast knowledge of the molecules involved in development has been gained in recent decades, big questions remain on the molecular organization and physics that shape cells, tissues and organisms. Physical scientists and biologists traditionally have very different backgrounds and perspectives, yet some of the fundamental questions in developmental biology will only be answered by combining expertise from a range of disciplines. This book is a personal account by Professor Lionel Harrison of an interdisciplinary approach to studying biological pattern formation. It articulates the power of studying dynamics in development: that to understand how an organism is made we must not only know the structure of its molecules; we must also understand how they interact and how fast they do so.
Author : David Benjamin
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935079
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Now We See Now written by David Benjamin and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now We See Now chronicles the projects and findings of a firm that is charting bold new directions in generative design and other intersections of science and architecture. In the context of massive and accelerating change--in technology, science, climate, and society--the nature of architectural design is also evolving and coming to life in new ways. New York-based office The Living has developed a unique design approach that explores projects through the application of new technologies, materials, and the growing field of generative design (design that uses software to emulate nature's evolutionary processes). These methods are futuristic, even utopian, but also raw and immediate in their application of hands-on prototyping and testing through making. The Living addresses urgent issues through reframing design with today's tools. David Benjamin, founding principal of The Living, explains his methodologies through numerous projects and abundant research that are making real inroads to what is increasingly known as generative design. Benjamin executes numerous projects that demonstrate these surprising techniques, including the Princeton Embodied Computation Lab, a new building for research on next-generation design and construction technologies; Hy-Fi, a branching tower for MoMA PS1 made of a new type of biodegradable brick; and using principles of adaptive networks to prototype new structural dividers for Airbus that are nearly 50% lighter than traditional ones. Now We See Now documents this emerging body of work and points to new directions for an evolving discipline, surveying projects at a variety of scales for a variety for clients. For an era where rapid change is the norm, The Living demonstrates how future design practices can embrace uncertainty and generate surprising solutions to tomorrow's challenges.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikos A. Salingaros
Publisher : Levellers Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Design Patterns and Living Architecture written by Nikos A. Salingaros and published by Levellers Press. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreas Deutsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0817644156
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation written by Andreas Deutsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a challenging application field of cellular automata: pattern formation in biological systems, such as the growth of microorganisms, dynamics of cellular tissue and tumors, and formation of pigment cell patterns. These phenomena, resulting from complex cellular interactions, cannot be deduced solely from experimental analysis, but can be more easily examined using mathematical models, in particular, cellular automaton models. While there are various books treating cellular automaton modeling, this interdisciplinary work is the first one covering biological applications. The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and students in applied mathematics, mathematical biology, computational physics, bioengineering, and computer science interested in a cellular automaton approach to biological modeling.
Author : Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317419510
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture written by Charissa N. Terranova and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It proposes an emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its historical and theoretical foundations from the perspective of artists, architects, designers, scientists, historians, and theoreticians. Includes over 150 black and white images.
Author : Raymond J. Lasek
Publisher : Alan R. Liss
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Intrinsic Determinants of Neuronal Form and Function written by Raymond J. Lasek and published by Alan R. Liss. This book was released on 1988 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Jay Katz
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Socrates in August written by Michael Jay Katz and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is our world incondensably complex? What does this mean for the kinds of understandings with which we must eventually rest satisfied? In 399 B.C., Socrates would have faced this challenge without the language of modern science - a language rife with spacetime continua and four dimensions and genetic codes, all of which hide innumerable elemental assumptions about the structure of human understanding. Instead, Socrates had only his hands and his feet, and trees, houses, and mountains. Most of all, Socrates had the great myths, tales that, having rubbed shoulders with people since time immemorial, still maintain a standing in the crowd. Myths are bald wishes and hopes that are unabashedly fiction and that are human because they resonate in the human soul. They reiterate common human qualities, and they mirror truths that are direct and general and special to us all.
Author : Eric Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107121884
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth written by Eric Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting the foundations of physics and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary and integrative book explores life as a planetary process.
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Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book South Dakota Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
