Fractal architecture
Subtitle: organic design philosophy in theory and practice
By: James Harris
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albuquerque [N.M.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826352019; 9780826352026
Subjects: Fractals; Geometry in architecture
Other titles: Organic design philosophy in theory and practice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Man, nature, and architecture. The journey from mathematical monsters to the key to nature's structure; title: The human desire for nature; title: Nature's order and its architectural embodiment; title: Skyscraper form and its fractal derivative; title: Nature and human cognition. Gestalt and the wholeness of fractal structure; title: Perception and cognition of natural form; title: The universal quality of fractal expression; title: The abstract trajectory to the fractal modernist form; title: Architecture from nature. Nature's generative character; title: Elements of fractal form; title: The fractal confluence of science and art; title: The spectrum of architecture's relationship to nature.