Hypernatural: Architecture's New Relationship with Nature (Architecture Briefs)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616892722 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Blaine Brownell is an associate professor of architecture and the director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous PAPress books, including Material Strategies and the Transmaterial series of sourcebooksMarc Swackhamer is the head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota
"Some examples are more illustrative and just hint at future possibilities. But others are places where humans around the world live, work and play."-The Plain Dealer"Where will future architects find inspiration? In their new book Hypernatural, authors Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer of University of Minnesota describe how designers and architects have started to copy nature."-The Wall Street Journal
In Hypernatural architecture and material experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer present an international collection of forty-two case studies that illustrate astonishing new applications possible in this rapidly growing field, from Echoviren, a botanical pavilion that was designed to wilt into its surrounding redwood forest in Northern California, to the MIT Media Lab's Silk Pavilion, constructed by the threads of silkworms as they passed over scaffolding. Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. Together, these projects show that by looking to nature, design can be a tool that makes our built environment more efficient, sustainable, and, most of all, livable.. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself
Good book to have! Gemini 11 Good book so far, full of insightful information and mostly accurate.