Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The evolution of designs : biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Routledge
Place
Date
2008
Physical Description
xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780415447522
0415447526
9780415447539
0415447534
9780203934272
020393427X
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Edition/State/Version
Revised edition
Subject Category
Content
Introduction -- The organic analogy -- The classificatory analogy: building types and natural species -- The anatomical analogy: engineering structure and the animal skeleton -- The ecological analogy: the environments of artefacts and organisms -- 6. The Darwinian analogy: trial and error in the evolution of organisms and artefacts -- The evolution of decoration -- Tools as organs or as extensions of the physical body -- How to speed up craft evolution? -- Design as a process of growth -- 'Biotechnics': plants and animals as inventors -- Hierarchical structure and the adaptive process: biological analogy in Alexander's Notes on the synthesis of form -- The consequences of the biological fallacy: functional determinism -- The consequences of the biological fallacy: historical determinism and the denial of tradition -- What remains of the analogy? The history and science of the artificial -- Afterword: developments since 1980.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Architecture and biology]
Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1979. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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