Architecture Animal Human

Author : Catherine T. Ingraham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135993386
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Animal, Human written by Catherine T. Ingraham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other. These convergences are fascinating and complex, offering new insights into architecture and its role. Establishing architecture as a product of the ascendancy of the position of human life, the author shows here that while architecture is dependent on life forces for its existence, at the same time it must be, at some level, indifferent to the life within it. Life, for its part, privileges itself above all else, and seeks to continuously expand its field of expression. This, then, is the asymmetrical condition, and to understand it is to gain important new theoretical perspectives into the nature of architecture.

Author : Mike Hansell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199205566
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Built by Animals written by Mike Hansell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From vast termite mounds that outstrip our own skyscrapers, to elaborate birds nests, delicate shells, and deadly spiders' traps, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. Mike Hansell reveals the biology behind animal architecture - showing how small brains have evolved to produce complex and beautiful structures.

Author : Ingo Arndt
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419711657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Architecture written by Ingo Arndt and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects photographs of structures created by animals, from the six-foot-high hills of tiny red ants to the colorfully decorated courtship arenas of the bowerbird, showcasing the connections between human and animal architecture.

Author : Karl von Frisch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780091227104
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Architecture written by Karl von Frisch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mendoza G.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House By Mouse written by Mendoza G. and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Hansell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578606
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Built by Animals written by Mike Hansell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From termite mounds that in relative terms are three times as tall as a skyscraper, to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. But how do creatures with such small brains build these complex structures? What drives them to do it? Which skills are innate and which learned? Here, Mike Hansell looks at the extraordinary structures that animals build - whether homes, traps, or courtship displays - and reveals the biology behind their behaviour. He shows how small-brained animals achieve complex feats in a small-brained way, by repeating many simple actions and using highly evolved self-secreted materials. On the other hand, the building feats or tool use of large-brained animals, such as humans or chimps, require significantly more complex and costly behaviour. We look at wasp's nests, leaf-cutting ants, caddisflies and amoebae, and even the extraordinary bower bird, who seduces his mate with a decorated pile of twigs, baubles, feathers and berries. Hansell explores how animal structures evolved over time, how insect societies emerge, how animals can alter their wider habitat, and even whether some animals have an aesthetic sense.

Author : Catherine T. Ingraham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135993394
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Animal, Human written by Catherine T. Ingraham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the historical links between architecture and the development of life sciences, this text focuses on particular times of great change in these disciplines and the complex relationships between life and the environments that life creates.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789147247
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Architecture written by Paul Dobraszczyk and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative call for architects to remember and embrace the nonhuman lives that share our spaces. A spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There’s hardly any part of the built environment that can’t be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely selective about which animals we keep in or out. This book imagines new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human and asks how we might design with animals and the other lives that share our spaces in mind. Animal Architecture is a provocative exploration of how to think about building in a world where humans and other animals are already entangled, whether we acknowledge it or not.

Author : Catherine Ingraham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300071191
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity written by Catherine Ingraham and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, the author investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She approaches the subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical and historical points of view.

Author : Catherine Ingraham
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415701068
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Animal, Human written by Catherine Ingraham and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other. These convergences are fascinating and complex, offering new insights into architecture and its role. Establishing architecture as a product of the ascendancy of the position of human life, the author shows here that while architecture is dependent on life forces for its existence, at the same time it must be, at some level, indifferent to the life within it. Life, for its part, privileges itself above all else, and seeks to continuously expand its field of expression. This, then, is the asymmetrical condition, and to understand it is to gain important new theoretical perspectives into the nature of architecture.