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Author(s): Philip Steadman
ISBN(s): 9780415447539, 0415447534
Edition: Revised
File Details: PDF, 2.44 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10:         0415447534
ISBN 13: 978-0415447539
Author:          Philip Steadman

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.

Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate the forms of plants and animals, but to find methods in design analogous to the processes of growth and evolution in nature.

This new revised edition of this classic work adds an extended Afterword covering recent developments such as the introduction of computer methods in design in the 1980s and ‘90s, which have made possible a new kind of ‘biomorphic’ architecture through ‘genetic algorithms’ and other programming techniques.

 

The Evolution of Designs Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts 1st Table of contents:

  1. The Organic Analogy
  2. The Classificatory Analogy: Building Types and Natural Species
  3. The Anatomical Analogy: Engineering Structure and the Animal Skeleton
  4. The Darwinian Analogy: Trial and Error in the Evolution of Organisms and Artifacts
  5. The Evolution of Decoration
  6. Tools as Organs or Extensions of the Physical Body
  7. How to Speed up Craft Evolution
  8. Design as a Process of Growth
  9. Biotechnics: Plants and Animals as Inventors
  10. Hierarchical Structure and the Adaptive Process
  11. The Consequences of the Biological Fallacy: Functional Determinism
  12. What Remains of the Analogy?
  13. Afterword
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