Form Follows Nature: A History of Nature as Model for Design in Engineering, Architecture and Art
Form Follows Nature: A History of Nature as Model for Design in Engineering, Architecture and Art
$89.95
Finsterwalder, Rudolf, ed. Form Follows Nature: A History of Nature as Model for Design in Engineering, Architecture and Art
Cl. Springer Wien 2011
Book ID: 90040
Nature is in many different ways a a pool for the productive human being, but also a counterpoint to his/her work. Both energetic and constuctively optimised forms as well as adaptability and variety serve as rols models. Natural scientists, engineers, architects, and artists draw from inspirational pool of nature. The book is an outline of the history of the human examination of nature and presents a perspective for further possible lessons from nature.
512 pp., illus
