A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Does the protocell require too great a leap in scalar imagination for architects? A detail of a building is manageable but what about something smaller than the microscopic? Mark Morris encourages designers to scale down to the diminutive level of the nanoscale by providing them with some inspiring precedents in architectural theory and popular culture. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Does the protocell require too great a leap in scalar imagination for architects? A detail of a building is manageable but what about something smaller than the microscopic? Mark Morris encourages designers to scale down to the diminutive level of the nanoscale by providing them with some inspiring precedents in architectural theory and popular culture. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Dream a Little Dream
Morris, Mark (author)
Architectural Design ; 81 ; 44-49
2011-03-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
The Poetics of Space , Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage , ‘miniature thinking’ , Proteus , Michael Crichton's Prey , Abiogenesis , nanorobots , sentient buildings , ‘The Genesis Tub’, Dan Greaney , Vilhelm Pedersen. Tommelise, 1849 , Jonathan Swift , Isaac Asimov , ‘The Simpsons’ , Anthony Vidler , Gulliver discovers Laputa, the city on the flying island, 1838 , Gaston Bachelard , Theodore Sturgeon , The Microcosmic God , Matt Groening , Gulliver's Travels (1726) , Richard of Gloucester, in William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Bernard Picart, Aristeus Compels Proteus to Reveal his Oracles, 1731 (engraving) , Claude Mellan, The Veil of St Veronica, 1649 , JJ Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), The Dragon, 1840 , Stephen King's The Shining , Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
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