The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

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ISBN: 9780415447539 | 0415447534
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Copyright: 7/10/2008

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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.

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Preface to the revised edition	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The organic analogy	p. 8
The classificatory analogy: Building types and natural species	p. 21
The anatomical analogy: Engineering structure and the animal skeleton	p. 31
The ecological analogy: The environments of artefacts and organisms	p. 54
The Darwinian analogy: Trial and error in the evolution of organisms and artefacts	p. 71
The evolution of decoration	p. 99
Tools as organs or as extensions of the physical body	p. 119
How to speed up craft evolution?	p. 131
Design as a process of growth	p. 145
'Biotechnics': Plants and animals as inventors	p. 153
Hierarchical structure and the adaptive process: Biological analogy in Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form	p. 163
The consequences of the biological fallacy: Functional determinism	p. 179
The consequences of the biological fallacy: Historical determinism and the denial of tradition	p. 201
What remains of the analogy? The history and science of the artificial	p. 217
Afterword: Developments since 1980	p. 237
Notes	p. 274
Index	p. 295
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