The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots

Hersey, George L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0262582031 ISBN 13: 9780262582032

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2001

A highly original view of the relationship between architecture and the biological sciences.

In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal species. He examines the relationship between physical structures and living organisms, from bridges to mosques, from molecules to mammals. Insects, mollusks, and birds are given separate chapters, and three final chapters focus on architectural form and biological reproduction. Hersey also discusses architecture in connection with the body's interior processes and shows how buildings may be said to reproduce, adapt, and evolve, like other inanimate or "nonbiotic" entities such as computer programs and robots.

L'autore:

George Hersey is Emeritus Professor of Art History at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk (MIT Press, 1996) and The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi (MIT Press, 1988).

Product Description:

HERSEY, G. THE MONUMENTAL IMPULSE. ARCHITECTURE'S BIOLOGICAL ROOTS. CAMBRIDGE, MA, 2001, xx 244 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.