Titre et auteur:

On growth and form : organic architecture and beyond / [edited by Sarah Bonnemaison and Philip Beesley].

Publication:

Halifax : TUNS Press, ©2008.

Description:

178 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
"The essays were originally written for ACSA ... conference On growth and form ... held at the University of Waterloo in 2001 A selection ... appears here. Each contributor revised and expanded their essay"--Page [5].
Includes bibliographical references (page 165).
Why revisit D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's "On growth and form?" / Sarah Bonnemaison and Philip Beasley -- History and criticism : Geometries of creation: architecture and the revision of nature / Ryszard Sliwka ; Old and new organicism in architecture; the metatmorphoses of an aesthetic idea / Dörte Kuhlmann ; Functional versus purposive in the organic forms of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright / Kevin Nute ; The forces of matter / Hadas A. Steiner ; The skin of the "Sky Bubble" at Expo '67 / Sarah Bonnemaison ; The geodesic dome as a metaphor for expanding consciousness / Christine Macy -- Reading the organic : Drawing indeterminate architecture and the distorted net / Nat Chard ; Naturalization, in circles: architecture, science, architecture / Reinhold Martin -- Nature as teacher : "A diagram of forces": form as formation in nature and design / Ann Richards -- Tensegrity complexity / Thomas Seebohm -- Phenomeno-logical garden: a work in morpho-logical process / Manuel Báez -- Process in nature and process in architecture: inquiry into a process of unfolding / Hajo Neis -- Synthesis of form, structure and material: design for a form-optimized lightweight membrane construction/ Edgar Stach.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780929112541 (pbk.)
0929112547

Sujet:

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948. On growth and form.
Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948 On growth and form.
On growth and form (Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth)
Organic architecture.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Architecture organique.
Nature (Esthétique)
organic architecture.
Organisk arkitektur.

Vedettes secondaires:

Bonnemaison, Sarah.
Beesley, Philip, 1956-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 257147
Cote: BIB 187587
Statut: Disponible