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Author Harris, James, 1957-

Title Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / James Harris
Published Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description xi, 410 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents Introduction -- Man, nature, and architecture. The journey from mathematical monsters to the key to nature's structure -- The human desire for nature -- Nature's order and its architectural embodiment -- Skyscraper form and its fractal derivative -- Nature and human cognition. Gestalt and the wholeness of fractal structure -- Perception and cognition of natural form -- The universal quality of fractal expression -- The abstract trajectory to the fractal modernist form -- Architecture from nature. Nature's generative character -- Elements of fractal form -- The fractal confluence of science and art -- The spectrum of architecture's relationship to nature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Geometry in architecture.
Fractals.
LC no. 2011041452
ISBN 9780826352019 (paperback: alk. paper)
0826352014 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780826352026 (electronic)
Other Titles Organic design philosophy in theory and practice