The evolution of designs

The evolution of designs: biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts

The organic analogy
The classificatory analogy: building types and natural species
The anatomical analogy: engineering structure and the animal skeleton
The ecological analogy: the environments of artefacts and organisms
The Darwinian analogy: trial and error in the evolution of organisms and artefacts
The evolution of decoration
Tool as organs or as extensions of the physical body
How to speed up craft evolution?
Design as a process of growth
Biotechnics': plants and animals as inventors
Hierachical structure and the adaptive process: biological analogy in Alexander's Notes on the synthesis of form
The consequences of the biological fallacy: functional determinism
The consequences of the biological fallacy: historical determinism and the denial of tradition
What remains of the analogy? The history and science of the artificial

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

Language English

Material xvii, 302 p.

ISBN 0415447534 / 9780415447539

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