Fractal architecture :
Harris, James 1957-
Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / txt Organic design philosophy in theory and practice James Harris. - 410p. ill. 27cm. book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780826352019 9780826352026
2011041452
Geometry in architecture.
Fractals.
NA2760 / H37 2012
704.9/49514742
Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / txt Organic design philosophy in theory and practice James Harris. - 410p. ill. 27cm. book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780826352019 9780826352026
2011041452
Geometry in architecture.
Fractals.
NA2760 / H37 2012
704.9/49514742