Dollens, Dennis.

Digital-botanic architecture / Dennis Dollens.

Santa Fe : SITES Books ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, ©2005.

96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

"D-B-A explores physical as well as digital design and architecture based on biological forms. Fusing Leibniz's 18th-century metaphysic with Richard Dawkins's 20th-century theory of the meme, D-B-A simultaneously interweaves Louis Sullivan's "botanic architecture" as developed in his A System of Architectural Ornament with current design, contending that architecture is a waylaid biological extension of its builders - an extended phenotype as Dawkins would call it. Dennis Dollens also explores the use of software such as Xfrog in order to grow building elements in his own work, for example his 2004 spiral bridge (influenced by the sponge euplectella), as well as in Duncan Brown's experimental game spaces."--Jacket.

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Architecture Philosophy.
Morphology Computer simulation.
Structural design Computer simulation.
Architectural design Computer simulation.
Botany in art.
Computer-aided design.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Morphologie Simulation par ordinateur.
Constructions Calcul Simulation par ordinateur.
Design architectural Simulation par ordinateur.
Conception assistée par ordinateur.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux.
computer-aided designs (visual works)
architectural ornament.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 245430
Cote: BIB 175064
Statut: Disponible