Toward a living architecture? : complexism and biology in generative design / Christina Cogdell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cogdell, Christina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Summary:

Toward a Living Architecture? examines the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Based on Christina Cogdell’s field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this book critiques generative architecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice, definitively explaining the role of the natural sciences within contemporary architecture.

Contents:

Self-organizing and emergent architecture

Material computation

Morphogenesis and evolutionary computation

Context matters : LabStudio and biosynthesis

Growing living buildings : tissue and genetic engineering in architecture and design

'Protocell' architecture and SynBioDesign.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5807-6

1-4529-5806-8