Bio design: nature, science, creativity - Brossura

Myers, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0500291500 ISBN 13: 9780500291504

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2014

Riassunto

Bio Design examines some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and completed designs) that cover the fields of architecture, industrial processes, education, fine art, material engineering and bioengineering. Each project is illustrated by a short text, images and captions that combine to explain the problems the venture tackles, and how living materials and processes were harnessed to solve them in sustainable and aesthetically pleasing ways. Designers and artists have always looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they been able to alter and incorporate living organisms in their work. In a world with finite resources and a growing population, design that mimics or appropriates the sustainable template of nature is likely to prove as vital as it is novel. Many of the solutions also provoke thought about manipulating life for human ends. From bacteria that can spin microfibrils of pure cellulose for use in the clothing industry to pigeons that - fed special bacteria - excrete harmless detergent instead of faeces, and from lamps that require blood to function to genetically hacked plants with human DNA - biological design is science future here and now.

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Recensione:

A fascinating and worthy subject. --RIBA Journal

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500291500
• ISBN 13: 9780500291504
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288