Title & Author:

Adaptive ecologies : correlated systems of living / [edited] by Theodore Spyropoulos.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, ©2013.

Description:

333 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Caption title.
Includes bibliographical references.
Architecture's adaptation / Brett Steele -- Constructing adaptive ecologies : notes on a computational urbanism / Theodore Spyropoulos -- In conversation / John Henry Holland and Theodore Spyropoulos -- A case study approach : organisational frameworks (unit/cluster/collective) / with Ryan Dillon -- Urban typologies : London, Shanghai, New York, Tokyo / with Mollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon -- Continuing experiment : adaptive ecologies / John Frazer -- Parametric order : architectural order via an agent-based parametric semiology / Patrik Schumacher -- Morphogenetic taxonomies : Mangal ; Polyp growth: colonial form ; Phyllotaxis ; Seeding -- Induction design versus the human brain : computer programs versus freehand : what can we do now, what can't we do yet? / Makoto Sei Watanabe -- Self-organisational taxonomies : Stigmergy ; Hair-optimised detour networks ; Cellular automata ; Swarm behaviour -- Returning to (strange) objects / David Ruy -- Behavioural taxonomies : Surface tension: Hele-Shaw cell ; Siphonophora ; Cymatics ; Soft cast -- Ideas and computation in contemporary urban design : addressing the disconnects / Mark Burry.

Summary:

"Recent architecture has found itself having to cope with new social and cultural complexities that demand networked systems that are time- based, reconfigurable and evolutionary, and a corresponding model of urbanism defined as an adaptive ecology. It is against this backdrop that the AA's graduate Design Research Lab (DRL) has pursued its recent studio agenda through project-based research focusing on alternative models of housing. Integral to this research is a notion of architecture that looks towards designing systems that seek higher ordered goals emerging through an intimate correlation of material and computational interaction. This book presents the results of this research and with it constructs a generative view of space and structure and the exploration of behaviourbased models of living through patterns found in nature."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

1907896139 (paperback)
9781907896132 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural Association (Great Britain). Design Research Laboratory.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Philosophy.
Design Environmental aspects.
Architecture durable.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture Philosophie.
Design Aspect de l'environnement.
Arkitektur teori, filosofi.
Boende.
Bostäder.

Added entries:

Spyropoulos, Theodore.
Steele, Brett D.
Holland, John H. (John Henry), 1929-2015.
Dillon, Ryan.
Claypool, Mollie.
Frazer, John.
Schumacher, Patrik, 1961-
Watanabe, Makoto Sei, 1952-
Ruy, David.
Burry, Mark.
Architectural Association (Great Britain). Design Research Laboratory.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283419
Call No.: BIB 221617
Status: Available