TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,James
TI  - Fractal architecture: organic design philosophy in theory and practice 
SN  - 9780826352019 
AV  - NA2760 H37 2012
U1  - 704.9/49514742 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Geometry in architecture
KW  - Local
KW  - Fractals
N1  - 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
ER  -