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This surprising collection of essays accompanied by beautiful picture material by architects and artists revisits D'Arcy Thompson's influential book "On Growth and Form" (1917) to explore the link between morphology and formmaking in historical and contemporary design. Editd by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhouse University, Halifax, Canada.
juin 2008, Halifax
On growth and form: organic architecture and beyond
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This surprising collection of essays accompanied by beautiful picture material by architects and artists revisits D'Arcy Thompson's influential book "On Growth and Form" (1917) to explore the link between morphology and formmaking in historical and contemporary design. Editd by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhouse University, Halifax, Canada.
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(...)
novembre 2009
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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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(...)
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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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(...)
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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Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate(...)
mars 2015
Hypernatural: architecture's new relationship with nature
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Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself.
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La terre a conquis le champ de l'architecture contemporaine et les centaines de bâtiments d'une exceptionnelle qualité esthétique et technique qui émergent sur toute la planète éveillent l'intérêt des médias et de la profession. Habitat, équipements, bâtiments d'activités ou aménagements intérieurs et extérieurs, les 40 projets décrits dans ce livre ont été choisis parmi(...)
Architecture en terre d'aujourd'hui
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La terre a conquis le champ de l'architecture contemporaine et les centaines de bâtiments d'une exceptionnelle qualité esthétique et technique qui émergent sur toute la planète éveillent l'intérêt des médias et de la profession. Habitat, équipements, bâtiments d'activités ou aménagements intérieurs et extérieurs, les 40 projets décrits dans ce livre ont été choisis parmi les 357 candidats du TERRA Award, premier Prix mondial des architectures contemporaines en terre crue. Réalisés en adobe, bauge, blocs de terre comprimée, pisé ou torchis, ces exemples inspirants issus des cinq continents incitent à la redécouverte d'un matériau abondant et bon marché, dont la transformation demande peu d'énergie.
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On retrouve la section dorée, connue également sous le nom de divine proportion, ou division sacrée, et le nombre d'or aussi bien dans le dessin des étamines de plantes que dans les pyramides, les cathédrales gothiques ou le corps humain, pour ne citer que quelques exemples extraits d'une infinie série de phénomènes. Cet ouvrage présente non seulement les multiples(...)
février 2009, Köln
Le code secret: la formule mystérieuse qui régit les arts, la nature et les sciences
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On retrouve la section dorée, connue également sous le nom de divine proportion, ou division sacrée, et le nombre d'or aussi bien dans le dessin des étamines de plantes que dans les pyramides, les cathédrales gothiques ou le corps humain, pour ne citer que quelques exemples extraits d'une infinie série de phénomènes. Cet ouvrage présente non seulement les multiples formes que prend le nombre d'or dans la nature, les arts, l'architecture, la musique et les sciences, mais aussi des variantes comme la spirale d'or dans l'oreille interne humaine. Enrichi de plus 300 illustrations et graphiques, le texte examine à fond la question captivante de la genèse de l'univers et du "plan divin" secret mis au jour.
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This book offers a paradigm shift in how we design and build our buildings and our communities, one that recognizes that the positive experience of natural systems and processes in our buildings and constructed landscapes is critical to human health, performance, and well-being. Written for architects, landscape architects, planners,developers, environmental designers,(...)
janvier 2008, Hoboken
Biophilic design : the theory, science, and practice of bringing buildings to life
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This book offers a paradigm shift in how we design and build our buildings and our communities, one that recognizes that the positive experience of natural systems and processes in our buildings and constructed landscapes is critical to human health, performance, and well-being. Written for architects, landscape architects, planners,developers, environmental designers, as well as building owners, this publication is a guide to the theory, science, and practice of biophilic design. Twenty-three original essays written by scientists, designers, and practitioners, including Edward O. Wilson, Howard Frumkin, David Orr, Grant Hildebrand, Stephen Kieran, Tim Beatley, Jonathan Rose, Janine Benyus, Roger Ulrich, Bert Gregory, Robert Berkebile, William Browning, and Vivian Loftness, among others.
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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(...)
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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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(...)
janvier 1900, New York
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.