Toward a living architecture? : complexism and biology in generative design / Christina Cogdell.

Main entry:

Cogdell, Christina, author.

Title & Author:

Toward a living architecture? : complexism and biology in generative design / Christina Cogdell.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Description:

283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Self-organizing and emergent architecture -- Material computation -- Morphogenesis and evolutionary computation -- Context matters : LabStudio and biosynthesis -- Growing living buildings : tissue and genetic engineering in architecture and design -- 'Protocell' architecture and SynBioDesign.

Summary:

"The first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Based on Christina Cogdel's field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this field-building book analyzes generative architecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice, definitely explaining the role of the natural sciences within contemporary architecture." -- publisher.

ISBN:

9781517905378 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1517905370 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781517905385 paperback ; alkaline paper
1517905389 paperback ; alkaline paper

Subject:

Architecture and biology.
Architecture et biologie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304542
Call No.: BIB 250127
Status: Available

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