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008			130412s2012 nmua bi s001 0 eng
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020			_a9780826352019 _qpbk. : alk. paper
020			_a9780826352026 _qelectronic
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049			_aCARIBET
050	0	0	_aNA2760 _bH37 2012
082	0	0	_a704.9/49514742 _223
100	1		_aHarris, James _d1957- _9233081
245	1	0	_aFractal architecture : _borganic design philosophy in theory and practice / _cJames Harris. _htxt
246	3	0	_aOrganic design philosophy in theory and practice
264			_aAlbuquerque : _bUniversity of New Mexico Press , _c2012.
300			_a410p. _bill. _c27cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _btxt _atext
337			_2rdamedia _bn _aunmediaded
338			_2rdacarrier _bnc _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
650		0	_aGeometry in architecture. _9227714 _2Local
650		0	_aFractals. _9225145 _2Local
942			_c6 _hNA2760 _2lcc _kGeneral _mH37 2012