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A longed-for reprint now available. Animals made constructions tens of millions of years before the emergence of the human species, not to speak about our conception of architecture. They have also made what can be called architectural inventions, such as doors equipped with hinges and handles, fake doors meant to bluff the enemy, or transparent windows. Many animals also(...)
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A longed-for reprint now available. Animals made constructions tens of millions of years before the emergence of the human species, not to speak about our conception of architecture. They have also made what can be called architectural inventions, such as doors equipped with hinges and handles, fake doors meant to bluff the enemy, or transparent windows. Many animals also(...)
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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January 1900, Helsinki
January 1900, Helsinki
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Animal architecture
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A longed-for reprint now available. Animals made constructions tens of millions of years before the emergence of the human species, not to speak about our conception of architecture. They have also made what can be called architectural inventions, such as doors equipped with hinges and handles, fake doors meant to bluff the enemy, or transparent windows. Many animals also utilize "tools".
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A longed-for reprint now available. Animals made constructions tens of millions of years before the emergence of the human species, not to speak about our conception of architecture. They have also made what can be called architectural inventions, such as doors equipped with hinges and handles, fake doors meant to bluff the enemy, or transparent windows. Many animals also utilize "tools".
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January 1900, Helsinki
January 1900, Helsinki
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Natural Forms in Architecture
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The purpose of investigating the overlaps between architecture and biology is neither to draw borders or make further distinctions nor to declare architecture alive, but to clarify what is currently happening in the blurred fields, and to investigate the emerging discipline of biomimetics in architecture. An overview of the present state of research in the relatively(...)
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The purpose of investigating the overlaps between architecture and biology is neither to draw borders or make further distinctions nor to declare architecture alive, but to clarify what is currently happening in the blurred fields, and to investigate the emerging discipline of biomimetics in architecture. An overview of the present state of research in the relatively(...)
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Biomimetics in architecture: Architecture of life and buildings
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The purpose of investigating the overlaps between architecture and biology is neither to draw borders or make further distinctions nor to declare architecture alive, but to clarify what is currently happening in the blurred fields, and to investigate the emerging discipline of biomimetics in architecture. An overview of the present state of research in the relatively young scientific field of biomimetics shows the potential of the approach. The new discipline aims at innovation by making use of the subtle systems and solutions in nature having evolved within millions of years. Approaches that have been taken to transfer nature's principles to architecture have provided successful developments. The new approach presented in this book transfers the abstract concept of life onto built environment. Strategic search for life's criteria in architecture delivers a new view of architectural achievements and makes the innovative potential visible.
Biomimetics in architecture: Architecture of life and buildings
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The purpose of investigating the overlaps between architecture and biology is neither to draw borders or make further distinctions nor to declare architecture alive, but to clarify what is currently happening in the blurred fields, and to investigate the emerging discipline of biomimetics in architecture. An overview of the present state of research in the relatively young scientific field of biomimetics shows the potential of the approach. The new discipline aims at innovation by making use of the subtle systems and solutions in nature having evolved within millions of years. Approaches that have been taken to transfer nature's principles to architecture have provided successful developments. The new approach presented in this book transfers the abstract concept of life onto built environment. Strategic search for life's criteria in architecture delivers a new view of architectural achievements and makes the innovative potential visible.
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January 2011
January 2011
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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For a projects called 'The Limes', DS Landscape Architects from Amsterdam walked along the entire ancient Roman border road, the Limes Road, carrying a GPS. The aim was to 're-awaken' interest among local inhabitants, users of the landscape and administrators. The entire Dutch part of the Limes Road as it exists today is depicted by means of detailed maps, facts and(...)
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For a projects called 'The Limes', DS Landscape Architects from Amsterdam walked along the entire ancient Roman border road, the Limes Road, carrying a GPS. The aim was to 're-awaken' interest among local inhabitants, users of the landscape and administrators. The entire Dutch part of the Limes Road as it exists today is depicted by means of detailed maps, facts and(...)
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Natural Forms in Architecture
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November 2009
November 2009
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Limesweg
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For a projects called 'The Limes', DS Landscape Architects from Amsterdam walked along the entire ancient Roman border road, the Limes Road, carrying a GPS. The aim was to 're-awaken' interest among local inhabitants, users of the landscape and administrators. The entire Dutch part of the Limes Road as it exists today is depicted by means of detailed maps, facts and interesting information.
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For a projects called 'The Limes', DS Landscape Architects from Amsterdam walked along the entire ancient Roman border road, the Limes Road, carrying a GPS. The aim was to 're-awaken' interest among local inhabitants, users of the landscape and administrators. The entire Dutch part of the Limes Road as it exists today is depicted by means of detailed maps, facts and interesting information.
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November 2009
November 2009
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture. Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture—whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons—has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by(...)
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A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture. Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture—whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons—has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by(...)
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Inspired by nature : animals: the building/biology connection
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A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture. Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture—whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons—has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Animals focuses on specific analogies, comparing and contrasting techniques and materials used in animal constructions with examples of human architecture. It gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have drawn on such structures as tortoise and snail shells, spiders’ webs and birds’ nests, beehives and beaver lodges.
Inspired by nature : animals: the building/biology connection
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A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture. Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture—whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons—has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Animals focuses on specific analogies, comparing and contrasting techniques and materials used in animal constructions with examples of human architecture. It gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have drawn on such structures as tortoise and snail shells, spiders’ webs and birds’ nests, beehives and beaver lodges.
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June 2009
June 2009
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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Construire sur l'eau peut sembler une idée révolutionnaire, techniquement complexe et qui renvoie aux images futuristes de structures amphibies sophistiquées. Ce livre nous propose un double regard: d'une part, une vision analytique et synthétique de l'évolution de cette typologie dans son état vernaculaire, pour ensuite, pénétrer plus avant dans l'imaginaire des(...)
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Construire sur l'eau peut sembler une idée révolutionnaire, techniquement complexe et qui renvoie aux images futuristes de structures amphibies sophistiquées. Ce livre nous propose un double regard: d'une part, une vision analytique et synthétique de l'évolution de cette typologie dans son état vernaculaire, pour ensuite, pénétrer plus avant dans l'imaginaire des(...)
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Habitat lacustre: l'architecture du vernaculaire au contemporain
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Construire sur l'eau peut sembler une idée révolutionnaire, techniquement complexe et qui renvoie aux images futuristes de structures amphibies sophistiquées. Ce livre nous propose un double regard: d'une part, une vision analytique et synthétique de l'évolution de cette typologie dans son état vernaculaire, pour ensuite, pénétrer plus avant dans l'imaginaire des architectes et divers concepteurs qui se sont inspirés de cette architecture sur échasses pour projeter leurs constructions.
Habitat lacustre: l'architecture du vernaculaire au contemporain
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Construire sur l'eau peut sembler une idée révolutionnaire, techniquement complexe et qui renvoie aux images futuristes de structures amphibies sophistiquées. Ce livre nous propose un double regard: d'une part, une vision analytique et synthétique de l'évolution de cette typologie dans son état vernaculaire, pour ensuite, pénétrer plus avant dans l'imaginaire des architectes et divers concepteurs qui se sont inspirés de cette architecture sur échasses pour projeter leurs constructions.
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September 2009
September 2009
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of(...)
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This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of(...)
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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August 2012
August 2012
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Systemic architecture : operating manual for the self-organizing city
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This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization. Collecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the authors and their practice, ecoLogicStudio, the book discusses key disciplinary definitions such as ecologic urbanism, algorithmic architecture, bottom-up or tactical design, behavioural space and the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the city and architecture.
Systemic architecture : operating manual for the self-organizing city
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This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization. Collecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the authors and their practice, ecoLogicStudio, the book discusses key disciplinary definitions such as ecologic urbanism, algorithmic architecture, bottom-up or tactical design, behavioural space and the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the city and architecture.
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August 2012
August 2012
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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Animal architecture
Animal architecture
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Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their complexity, Animal Architecture presents a visually arresting tribute to the intersection of nature,(...)
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Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their complexity, Animal Architecture presents a visually arresting tribute to the intersection of nature,(...)
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Animal architecture
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Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their complexity, Animal Architecture presents a visually arresting tribute to the intersection of nature, science, function, and design.
Animal architecture
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Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their complexity, Animal Architecture presents a visually arresting tribute to the intersection of nature, science, function, and design.
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April 2014
April 2014
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Natural Forms in Architecture
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Naturalizing Architecture is the new edition of Archilab 2013. Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools, architects envisage projects which evolve according to principals similar to those found in nature. The architecture is therefore designed like an organism in constant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interaction with the material(...)
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Naturalizing Architecture is the new edition of Archilab 2013. Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools, architects envisage projects which evolve according to principals similar to those found in nature. The architecture is therefore designed like an organism in constant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interaction with the material(...)
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Archilab 2013: naturaliser l'architecture naturalizing
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Naturalizing Architecture is the new edition of Archilab 2013. Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools, architects envisage projects which evolve according to principals similar to those found in nature. The architecture is therefore designed like an organism in constant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interaction with the material conditions of its environment. Broadly exceeding the boundaries of their practice, architects now develop a practice at the crossroads of design, computer science, engineering and biology. Conditions for production in the domain of architecture are radically redefined by this convergence, as well as by the constant evolution of the processes and tools for digital manufacturing.
Archilab 2013: naturaliser l'architecture naturalizing
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Naturalizing Architecture is the new edition of Archilab 2013. Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools, architects envisage projects which evolve according to principals similar to those found in nature. The architecture is therefore designed like an organism in constant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interaction with the material conditions of its environment. Broadly exceeding the boundaries of their practice, architects now develop a practice at the crossroads of design, computer science, engineering and biology. Conditions for production in the domain of architecture are radically redefined by this convergence, as well as by the constant evolution of the processes and tools for digital manufacturing.
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March 2014
March 2014
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Natural Forms in Architecture
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First published in 1917, On Growth and Form was at once revolutionary and conservative. Scottish embryologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) grew up in the newly cast shadow of Darwinism, and he took issue with some of the orthodoxies of the day--not because they were necessarily wrong, he said, but because they violated the spirit of Occam's razor, in which simple(...)
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First published in 1917, On Growth and Form was at once revolutionary and conservative. Scottish embryologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) grew up in the newly cast shadow of Darwinism, and he took issue with some of the orthodoxies of the day--not because they were necessarily wrong, he said, but because they violated the spirit of Occam's razor, in which simple(...)
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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On growth and form: the complete revised edition
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First published in 1917, On Growth and Form was at once revolutionary and conservative. Scottish embryologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) grew up in the newly cast shadow of Darwinism, and he took issue with some of the orthodoxies of the day--not because they were necessarily wrong, he said, but because they violated the spirit of Occam's razor, in which simple explanations are preferable to complex ones. In the case of such subjects as the growth of eggs, skeletons, and crystals, Thompson cited mathematical authority: these were matters of "economy and transformation," and they could be explained by laws governing surface tension and the like. (He doubtless would have enjoyed the study of fractals, which came after his time.) In On Growth and Form, he examines such matters as the curve of frequency or bell curve (which explains variations in height among 10-year-old schoolboys, the florets of a daisy, the distribution of darts on a cork board, the thickness of stripes along a zebra's flanks, the shape of mountain ranges and sand dunes) and spirals (which turn up everywhere in nature you look: in the curve of a seashell, the swirl of water boiling in a saucepan, the sweep of faraway nebulae, the twist of a strand of DNA, the turns of the labyrinth in which the legendary Minotaur lived out its days). The result is an astonishingly varied book that repays skimming and close reading alike.
On growth and form: the complete revised edition
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First published in 1917, On Growth and Form was at once revolutionary and conservative. Scottish embryologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) grew up in the newly cast shadow of Darwinism, and he took issue with some of the orthodoxies of the day--not because they were necessarily wrong, he said, but because they violated the spirit of Occam's razor, in which simple explanations are preferable to complex ones. In the case of such subjects as the growth of eggs, skeletons, and crystals, Thompson cited mathematical authority: these were matters of "economy and transformation," and they could be explained by laws governing surface tension and the like. (He doubtless would have enjoyed the study of fractals, which came after his time.) In On Growth and Form, he examines such matters as the curve of frequency or bell curve (which explains variations in height among 10-year-old schoolboys, the florets of a daisy, the distribution of darts on a cork board, the thickness of stripes along a zebra's flanks, the shape of mountain ranges and sand dunes) and spirals (which turn up everywhere in nature you look: in the curve of a seashell, the swirl of water boiling in a saucepan, the sweep of faraway nebulae, the twist of a strand of DNA, the turns of the labyrinth in which the legendary Minotaur lived out its days). The result is an astonishingly varied book that repays skimming and close reading alike.
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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From leaves to liquids, caves to crystal formations, nature has always been a major source of inspiration for architects. This book examines how nature can act as a precedent for design solutions through twelve case studies. Packed with computer drawings, sketches, models, and photographs, this will be an ideal resource of ideas for students in their studio work, as well(...)
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From leaves to liquids, caves to crystal formations, nature has always been a major source of inspiration for architects. This book examines how nature can act as a precedent for design solutions through twelve case studies. Packed with computer drawings, sketches, models, and photographs, this will be an ideal resource of ideas for students in their studio work, as well(...)
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Biomorphic structures: architecture inspired by nature
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From leaves to liquids, caves to crystal formations, nature has always been a major source of inspiration for architects. This book examines how nature can act as a precedent for design solutions through twelve case studies. Packed with computer drawings, sketches, models, and photographs, this will be an ideal resource of ideas for students in their studio work, as well as for practicing architects.
Biomorphic structures: architecture inspired by nature
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From leaves to liquids, caves to crystal formations, nature has always been a major source of inspiration for architects. This book examines how nature can act as a precedent for design solutions through twelve case studies. Packed with computer drawings, sketches, models, and photographs, this will be an ideal resource of ideas for students in their studio work, as well as for practicing architects.
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January 2017
January 2017
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Natural Forms in Architecture
Natural Forms in Architecture
