Fractal architecture : organic design philosophy in theory and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, James, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.