01764nam a22003137a 4500 231535 231535 pucpr 20191204113513.0 130412s2012 nmua bi s001 0 eng 2011041452 9780826352019 pbk. : alk. paper 9780826352026 electronic pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr CARIBET NA2760 H37 2012 704.9/49514742 23 Harris, James 1957- 233081 Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice / James Harris. txt Organic design philosophy in theory and practice Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2012. 410p. ill. 27cm. book rdacontent txt text rdamedia n unmediaded rdacarrier nc volume 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. Geometry in architecture. 227714 Local Fractals. 225145 Local 6 NA2760 lcc General H37 2012 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2013-04-12 Amazon 67.50 505204 0 General NA2760 H37 2012 91000000032292 2023-09-27 17:26:53 1 77.50 2013-04-12 6