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In times where the very concept of nature is questioned not only in its philosophical dimension, but in the core of its biological materiality, we need to reconsider the interrelations between architecture and nature. To address these challenges this book unravels compelling innovative and forward-t...
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Birkhäuser,
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| Publisher Address: | Basel ; Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Applied virtuality book series ;
volume 8 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.14523/ambra.9783990436684 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783990436684.jpg |
| Summary: |
In times where the very concept of nature is questioned not only in its philosophical dimension, but in the core of its biological materiality, we need to reconsider the interrelations between architecture and nature. To address these challenges this book unravels compelling innovative and forward-thinking design narratives by leading international practitioners and researchers for a future, alive architecture. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| ISBN: | 9783990436684 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | NA682 |
| CLC: | TU-023 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword / Preface / Introduction / Quasiperiodic Near Living Systems: Paradigms for Form Language / Ecology beyond Nature / Meteorosensitive Architectures / In[form]ations: Digital Matter on Buildings and Cities / Building Nature: On Sex and Ducks, Chicken and Shit, Architecture and Apples / Conversation -- Domesticating a World of Printed Physics / Beyond Performance / Adapting Matter / Bioluminescence: Toward Design with Living Light / Smart Materials: Designing a Timescape of Interconnectivity for more Resilient Practices of Inhabitation / The Unconventional Electronics Approach to the Internet of Things / Caught in the Act / Spatial Computing in Interactive Architecture / Polyomino: The Missing Topology Mechanic / Architecture and Audience / Approaching Distributed Architectural Ecosystems / Adaptive Architecture: Low Tech, High Tech, or Both? / The Quickness of Matter, doped in its Polyalphabetic Textuality: or, The Articulation of Articles, beyond Prescript and Postscript / Images. Biographies. Credits -- Index. Imprint + Acknowledgments. |