1. Edition - March 2006
29.90 Euro
2006. 128 Pages, Softcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-01529-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-01529-2 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
Morphogenetic Design: Techniques and Technologies introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelation of concepts such as emergence and self-organization with the potentials of the latest developments for fully integrated design evolution, manufacturing and construction.

From the contents
Editorial (Helen Castle).

Introduction: Towards Self-O rganisational and Multiple- Performance Capacity in Architecture (Michael Hensel).

Computing Self-Organisation: Environmentally Sensitive Growth Modelling (Michael Hensel).

(Synthetic) Life Architectures: Ramifications and Potentials of a Literal Biological Paradigm for Architectural Design (Michael Hensel).

Self-Organisation and the Structural Dynamics of Plants (Michael Weinstock).

Self-Organisation and Material Constructions (Michael Weinstock).

Instrumental Geometry (Achim Menges).

Advanced Simulation in Design (Michael Weinstock + Nikolaos Stathopoulos).

D i f f e rentiation and Performance: Multi- Performance Architectures and Modulated Environments (Michael Hensel + Achim Menges).

Manufacturing Diversity (Achim Menges).

Polymorphism (Achim Menges).

Material and Digital Design Synthesis (Michael Hensel + Achim Menges).

Interior Eye: Plus, Plus Ça Change at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Jayne Merkel).

Building Profile: Dirk Cove (Jeremy Melvin).

Home Run: Clarion Quay (Robert Payne).

Practice Profile: Metrogramma (Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi).

McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

Site Lines: Australian Wildlife Health Centre, Healesville Sanctuary, Melbourne (Leon van Schaik).