The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts
by Steadman, PhilipPub. Date: 2008-05-28
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
The Evolution of Designs tells the history of the many analogies that have been made, since the end of the 18th century, between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts especially buildings.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Organic Analogy | |
| The Classificatory Analogy: Building Types and Natural Species | |
| The Anatomical Analogy: Engineering Structure and the Animal Skeleton | |
| The Darwinian Analogy: Trial and Error in the Evolution of Organisms and Artefacts | |
| The Evolution of Decoration | |
| Tools as Organs or as Extensions of the Physical Body | |
| How to Speed up Craft Evolution | |
| Design as Process of Growth | |
| Biotechnics: Plants and Animals as Inventors | |
| Hierarchical Strcuture and the Adaptive Process | |
| The Consequences of the Biological Fallacy: functional determinism | |
| What Remains of the Analogy? | |
| Afterword | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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