Title & Author:

Architecture and the sciences : exchanging metaphors / Antoine Picon and Alessandra Ponte, editors ; foreword by Ralph Lerner.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University School of Architecture, ©2003.

Description:

357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Princeton papers on architecture ; 4

Notes:
Book emerged from a symposium sponsored by the School of Architecture at Princeton University during November 2000.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ptolemy and Vitruvius : spatial representation in the sixteenth-century texts and commentaries / Denis Cosgrove -- The place of distribution : episodes in the architecture of experiment / Edward Eigen -- Desert testing / Alessandra Ponte -- Viollet-le-Duc's optic / Martin Bressani -- Norm and type, variations on a theme / Georges Teyssot -- Organicism's other / Reinhold Martin -- War against the center / Peter Galison -- Why all these birds? Birds in the sky, birds in the hand / Catherine Ingraham -- Encounters with The face of America / Felicity D. Scott -- Architecture, science, technology, and the virtual realm / Antoine Picon -- Flow, process, fold / Timothy Lenoir and Casey Alt.

Summary:

"Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years, architects have been looking again at science as a source of inspiration in the production of their designs and constructions. This volume evaluates the interconnections between the sciences and architecture from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Architecture and the Sciences shows how scientific paradigms have migrated to architecture through the appropriation of organic and mechanical models. Conversely, architecture has provided images for scientific and technological discourse. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains."-- Publisher's website.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568983654 (alk. paper)
9781568983653 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and science.
Architectural design.
Architecture et sciences.
Design architectural.
Architektur
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
Architectuurtheorieën.
Techniekgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Invloed.

Form/genre:

Kongress Princeton (NJ) 2000.
Proceedings.

Added entries:

Picon, Antoine.
Ponte, Alessandra.
Princeton papers on architecture ; 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227916
Call No.: NA2543.S35 A727 2000
Status: Available