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Terms and conditions applyEmergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies
Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock
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Format: Book
Pages: 128
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: Jul 2004
Stock Code: 36684
Binding: Paperback
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Emergence, or evolutionary optimisation, is an important new concept that in recent years has been applied to artificial intelligence, information theory, digital technology, economics, climate studies, material science and biometric engineering. In an architectural context it involves harnessing evolutionary processes for not only the design of buildings, but also the composition of new materials and structural design. In so doing, architecture is aspiring to a new level of complexity as it seeks to match the restless perfection of systems in the natural world.
This title is compiled by Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock, the directors of the Emergence and Design Group and the new Emergent Technologies and Design masters programme at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. At the AA, the group is leading an international research-based unit that is at the very forefront in the tectonic application of emergence.
As well as featuring the group' s own work, this publication includes interviews with Frei Otto; Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo of Foreign Office Architects (FOA); and Charles Walker, leader of the Advanced Geometry Unit at Arup. It also features articles by Professor George Jeronimidis from the Centre for Biomimetics at Reading University, and Johann Sischka, managing director of Waagner Biro, the manufacturing contractor renowned for its complex geometry constructions.
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