Ebook: Emergent Technologies and Design: Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture
- Genre: Art // Design: Architecture
- Tags: Architecture and technology, Architecture -- Technological innovations, Design and technology, Design -- Technological innovations, Architectural design, ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management, ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: London ; New York
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
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Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties 'emerge' from within complex systemsTraditional 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 material systems that Read more...