Soft Living Architecture : an Alternative View of Bio-Informed Practice.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armstrong, Rachel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018.
Temas:
Architecture and biology.
Architecture et biologie.
Architecture and biology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of figures; Preface; 1 Life as You Don't Know It; 1.1 Prototyping life; 1.2 Beyond the bête machine; 1.3 Replaying the tape of life; 1.4 Parallel worlds; 1.5 Nature of matter; 1.6 Mineral sensibilities; 1.7 Origin of life; 1.8 Biogenesis and vivogenesis; 1.9 Dissipative life; 1.10 Dissipative adaptation; 1.11 Phantasmagoria of life; 1.12 Life as material subversion; 1.13 Subnatures; 1.14 Chicken and egg: The paradox of lively matter; 1.15 Worlding; 2 Experimental and Soft Living Architecture; 2.1 Experimental architecture
  • 2.1.1 Twenty-first-century experimental architecture2.2 Soft living architecture; 2.2.1 The character of 'life' in soft living architecture; 2.2.2 Soft living architecture: Examples; 2.2.3 Soft living architecture: Body; 2.3 Storytelling; 2.4 Ambient poetics; 3 World in Meltdown; 3.1 End of Utopia; 3.2 The Tower of Babel; 3.3 Babelsphere; 3.4 The changing character of nature; 3.5 Nature of nature; 3.6 Venetian nature; 3.7 The gluttony of death; 3.8 Breaking up; 3.9 Design and death; 3.10 Urban (Terra)toma; 3.11 Insurrection and death; 3.12 Sewage
  • 4 Synthesis: Entangled Materials, Tools and Methods4.1 Nature as technology; 4.2 Modes of computation; 4.2.1 Computing with humans; 4.2.2 Natural computing; 4.2.3 Dissipative structures; 4.2.4 Consciousness and living materials; 4.3 Softness; 4.4 Making soils; 4.5 Liquid soils; 4.6 Ice computer; 4.7 Aeroso(i)ls; 5 Embracing Change; 5.1 Choreography; 5.2 Evaluation; 5.3 Alternative impacts; 5.4 Alternative methodologies; 5.5 Alternative experiments; 5.6 Fertility as value; 5.7 Alternative architectures; 5.8 Parallel apparatuses; 5.9 Alternative roles for architects
  • 6 Laboratories and Convergences6.1 Babel fish; 6.2 The soft city of Venice; 6.3 Living stones of Venice; 6.4 Automatic Venetian chess; 6.5 Invisibility; 6.6 The invisible laboratory: An alternative synthetic platform; 6.7 Ectoplasms; 6.8 Jellyfish; 6.9 Sensible apparatuses; 6.10 Lost music: Antonio Vivaldi; 6.11 Channelling and knotting; 6.12 Phantasmagorical laboratory; 6.13 Immersive sensible kaleidoscope; 7 Prototyping Practices; 7.1 Parallel beauty; 7.2 Parallel soils; 7.3 Golem; 7.4 Weeki Wachee maids; 7.5 Witch bottles; 7.6 Gog and Magog; 7.7 Sound walk; 7.8 Land and community
  • 7.9 Mirror puddle7.10 Doggerland: Uncertainty, prophecy and the near-shore experience; 7.11 Babel chandelier; 7.12 Corresponding with the cosmos; 8 Projects; 8.1 Living Architecture; 8.1.1 Microbial fuel cell; 8.1.2 Photobioreactor; 8.1.3 Synthetic bioreactor; 8.1.4 Integration and uses; 8.2 Diversifying bricks; 8.2.1 Soft brick; 8.2.2 Embryological brick; 8.2.3 Lamprey shoe: Blood bank; 8.3 Programmable bricks; 8.3.1 Living brick for Venice; 8.3.2 Titrating tensions: Hips and teeth; 8.4 Transfiguring Venice; 8.4.1 City of soft living architecture; 8.5 Future Venice; 8.5.1 Protocell city

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