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.
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Fractals.
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LC no. |
2011041452 |
ISBN |
9780826352019 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0826352014 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780826352026 (electronic) |
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