Philip Steadman

The Evolution of Designs (eBook, ePUB)

Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.

Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate the forms of plants and animals, but to find methods in design analogous to the processes of growth and evolution in nature.

This new revised edition of this classic work adds an extended Afterword covering recent developments such as the introduction of computer methods in design in the 1980s and '90s, which have made possible a new kind of 'biomorphic' architecture through 'genetic algorithms' and other programming techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134062331
• Artikelnr.: 38260435

Autorenporträt

Philip Steadman is Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at The Bartlett School (Faculty of the Built Environment), University College London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Organic Analogy. The Classificatory Analogy: Building
Types and Natural Species. The Anatomical Analogy: Engineering Structure
and the Animal Skeleton. 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 Process of Growth. Biotechnics: Plants and Animals as
Inventors. Hierarchical Strcuture and the Adaptive Process. The
Consequences of the Biological Fallacy: Functional Determinism. What
Remains of the Analogy? Afterword