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Emergent Technologies and Design: Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture book cover

1st Edition

Emergent Technologies and Design Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture

By Michael Hensel, Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock Copyright 2010
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systems Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true – that those structures are complex energy and... Read more

Part 1: Theoretical Framework 1. Evolution and Computation 2. Material Systems, Computational Morphogenesis and Performative Capacity 3. Material Systems and Environmental Dynamics Feedback Part 2: Research 4. Fibres 5. Textiles 6. Nets 7. Lattices 8. Branches 9. Cells 10. Mass Components 11. Casts 12. Aggregates

Biography

Michael Hensel is co-founder and was co-director of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture until 2009. He is　now　Professor of Research by Design at AHO – The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and board member of BIONIS – the Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability.

Achim Menges is Professor and Director of the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University and Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

Michael Weinstock is the Director of Research and Development at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he is co-founder and co-director of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme.

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