Harris, James  1957- <br/><br/>
Fractal architecture :  organic design philosophy in theory and practice /  txt 
 Organic design philosophy in theory and practice 
James Harris. 
 - 410p.  ill.  27cm.  book 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826352019  9780826352026 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011041452 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geometry in architecture.<br/>Fractals.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2760  / H37 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>704.9/49514742