Emergent technologies and design / Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock.

Author
Hensel, Michael [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oxon, [U.K.] ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2010]
  • ©2010
Description
1 online resource (257 p.)

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Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties 'emerge' from within complex systemsTraditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true - that those structures are complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of an environment of other active systems, and develop in an evolutionary way.This book, based on the authors' internati
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-246) and index.
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English
Contents
  • part 1. Theoretical framework
  • part 2. Research.
ISBN
  • 1-134-72151-X
  • 1-315-88129-2
OCLC
  • 862824104
  • 858861285
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