Form Follows Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form Follows Nature write by Rudolf Finsterwalder. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Form Follows Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nature is in many different ways a pool for the productive human being, but also a counterpoint to his/her own work. This book offers a richly illustrated overview of the history of nature in architecture, civil engineering and art.
Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design write by Ilaria Mazzoleni. This book was released on 2013-03-21. Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural Envelopes Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instill a shift in thinking about the application of biological principles to design and architecture. She focuses on the analysis of how organisms have adapted to different environments and translates the learned principles into the built environment. To illustrate the methodology, Mazzoleni draws inspiration from the diversity of animal coverings, referred to broadly as skin, and applies them to the design of building envelopes through a series of twelve case studies. Skin is a complex organ that performs a multitude of functions; namely, it serves as a link between the body and the environment. Similarly, building envelopes act as interfaces between their inhabitants and external elements. The resulting architectural designs illustrate an integrative methodology that allows architecture to follow nature. "Ilaria Mazzoleni, in collaboration with biologist Shauna Price, has developed a profound methodology for architectural and design incentives that anticipates and proposes novel ways to explore undiscovered biological inspirations for various audiences." —Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings
Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings write by Louis H. Sullivan. This book was released on 1979-01-01. Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reprint of the definitive 1918 edition, this bold, thought-provoking volume by one of America's most influential architects features dialogs, or "chats," about architecture, art, education, and life in general. 17 illustrations.
Marion Mahony Griffin
Marion Mahony Griffin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marion Mahony Griffin write by Debora Wood. This book was released on 2005. Marion Mahony Griffin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawings by Marion Mahony Griffin with articles about the artist by Deborah Wood, David Van Zanten, Christopher Vernon, and Alison Fisher.
Form Follows Energy
Form Follows Energy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form Follows Energy write by Brian Cody. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Form Follows Energy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Architecture is energy. Lines drawn on paper to represent architectural intentions also imply decades and sometimes centuries of associated energy and material flows. Form Follows Energy is about the relationship between energy and the form of our built environment. It examines the optimisation of energy flows in building and urban design and the implications for form and configuration. It speaks to both architectural and engineering audiences and offers for the first time a truly interdisciplinary overview on the subject, explaining the complex relationships between energy and architecture in an easy to follow manner and using simple diagrams to show how energy design strategies can be used to maximize the energy performance of our built environment, while at the same time leading to new aesthetic qualities and radically new forms in architecture and urban design. Case studies are used to illustrate the theory. The books philosophy is based on the guiding principles underlying nearly 30 years work in practice, research and teaching. It is relatively easy to make something simple seem complicated. To make a complex topic seem simple and easily understandable is far more of a challenge and this is the aim of this book.
