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Biomorphism in Architecture: Speculations on Growth and Form
Many of the design methods applied by the current architectural avantgarde can be traced back to one of the oldest and most influential ideas in architectural history: the concept of organicism in its various guises. The basic idea of organicism, to take nature as model, is one of the most oldest and most fundamental aesthetic concepts in western art and architecture theory. Since the Renaissance, it has shown an uninterrupted continuity, influencing architecture on both the conceptual and the metaphorical levels. Not only classical but also modern architects attempted to imitate natural forms or processes in design. While the influence of classical philosophers waned during and after the Enlightenment, the appeals to the authority of nature only intensified. Thus, the study of organicism concerns a very basic question in the history of architectural theory as well as in the current discourse.
Biomorphism in Architecture: Speculations on Growth and Form
Many of the design methods applied by the current architectural avantgarde can be traced back to one of the oldest and most influential ideas in architectural history: the concept of organicism in its various guises. The basic idea of organicism, to take nature as model, is one of the most oldest and most fundamental aesthetic concepts in western art and architecture theory. Since the Renaissance, it has shown an uninterrupted continuity, influencing architecture on both the conceptual and the metaphorical levels. Not only classical but also modern architects attempted to imitate natural forms or processes in design. While the influence of classical philosophers waned during and after the Enlightenment, the appeals to the authority of nature only intensified. Thus, the study of organicism concerns a very basic question in the history of architectural theory as well as in the current discourse.
Biomorphism in Architecture: Speculations on Growth and Form
Biol.,Med.Physics,Biomed.Engineer. (formerly:Biological,Medical Phys.)
Gruber, Petra (editor) / Bruckner, Dietmar (editor) / Hellmich, Christian (editor) / Schmiedmayer, Heinz-Bodo (editor) / Stachelberger, Herbert (editor) / Gebeshuber, Ille C. (editor) / Kuhlmann, Dörte (author)
2011-06-20
30 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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