organic design philosophy in theory and practice Harris, James creator text bibliography nmu Albuquerque [N.M.] University of New Mexico Press 2012 monographic eng

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410 p. : ill. Introduction -- Man, nature, and architecture. The journey from mathematical monsters to the key to nature's structure -- The human desire for nature -- Nature's order and its architectural embodiment -- Skyscraper form and its fractal derivative -- Nature and human cognition. Gestalt and the wholeness of fractal structure -- Perception and cognition of natural form -- The universal quality of fractal expression -- The abstract trajectory to the fractal modernist form -- Architecture from nature. Nature's generative character -- Elements of fractal form -- The fractal confluence of science and art -- The spectrum of architecture's relationship to nature. HKBU library James Harris. YT2025 M09 Geometry in architecture Fractals NA2760 H297 F 2012 9780826352019 9780826352026 SDU 111003