Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice /
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| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.