D Arcy Wentworth Thompson S Generative Influences In Art Design And Architecture

Author : Ellen K. Levy,Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350191129

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture by Ellen K. Levy,Charissa N. Terranova Pdf

Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected. United by Thompson's original exploration of how physical forces propel and shape living and nonliving forms, essays range from art, art history, and neuroscience to architecture, design, and biology. Contributors explore how translations are made from the discipline of biology to the cultural arena. They reflect on how Thompson's study relates to the current sciences of epigenesis, self-organization, biological complex systems, and the expanded evolutionary synthesis. Cross-disciplinary contributors explore the wide-ranging aesthetic ramifications of these sciences. A timeline links the history of evolutionary theory with cultural achievements, providing the reader with a valuable resource.

Author : Brandon Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501353925

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The Life of Forms in Art by Brandon Taylor Pdf

What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves. In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern art: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid.

Author : Anne Dambricourt Malassé
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031047831

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Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology by Anne Dambricourt Malassé Pdf

The epistemological synthesis of the various theories of evolution, since the first formulation in 1802 with the transmission of the inherited characters by J.B. Lamarck, shows the need for an alternative synthesis to that of Princeton (1947). This new synthesis integrates the scientific models of self-organization developed during the second half of the 20th century based on the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and mathematics with the emergent evolutionary problematics such as self-organized memory. This book shows, how self-organization is integrated in modern evolutionary biology. It is divided in two parts: The first part pays attention to the modern observations in paleontology and biology, which include major theoreticians of the self-organization (d’Arcy Thompson, Henri Bergson, René Thom, Ilya Prigogine). The second part presents different emergent evolutionary models including the sciences of complexity, the non-linear dynamical systems, fractals, attractors, epigenesis, systemics, and mesology with different examples of the sciences of complexity and self-organization as observed in the human lineage, from both internal (embryogenesis-morphogenesis) and external (mesology) viewpoints.

Author : Eva Badura-Triska,Markus Wörgötter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Concrete art
ISBN : UCBK:C121990374

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Vertigo by Eva Badura-Triska,Markus Wörgötter Pdf

Of all the ground-breaking art movements of the 1950s and 60s, Op Art has received the least amount of attention to date. It has often been discounted as too spectacular and showy and therefore not very profound. This is a misconception - this art sharpens our awareness of the ambiguity of appearances and illustrates the impossibility of grasping 'reality'.Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520-1970 presents a deceptive game of the senses, unfurling a whole panorama of artistic works that confound the senses, ranging from panel paintings, reliefs and (kinetic) objects to installations and experiential spaces, to film and computer-generated or computer-controlled art.

Author : Charissa Terranova,Meredith Tromble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317419501

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The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture by Charissa Terranova,Meredith Tromble Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It proposes an emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its historical and theoretical foundations from the perspective of artists, architects, designers, scientists, historians, and theoreticians. Includes over 150 black and white images.

Author : Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857728074

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Art as Organism by Charissa N. Terranova Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova interprets anew major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others.This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art.

Author : Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1477302247

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Automotive Prosthetic by Charissa N. Terranova Pdf

In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technology—the relationships between identity and the mechanizations that have become extensions of the self. Focusing on one of humanity’s most ubiquitous machines, Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art combines critical theory and new media theory to form the first philosophical analysis of the car within works of conceptual art. These works are broadly defined to encompass a wide range of creative expressions, particularly in car-based conceptual art by both older, established artists and younger, emerging artists, including Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Richard Prince, Sylvie Fleury, Yael Bartana, Jeremy Deller, and Jonathan Schipper. At its core, the book offers an alternative formation of conceptual art understood according to technology, the body moving through space, and what art historian, curator, and artist Jack Burnham calls “relations.” This thought-provoking study illuminates the ways in which the automobile becomes a naturalized extension of the human body, incarnating new forms of “car art” and spurring a technological reframing of conceptual art. Steeped in a sophisticated take on the image and semiotics of the car, the chapters probe the politics of materialism as well as high/low debates about taste, culture, and art. The result is a highly innovative approach to contemporary intersections of art and technology.

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674627512

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Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander Pdf

"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional un-self-conscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities. In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct. The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village.

Author : Philip Beesley
Publisher : Cambridge, Ont. : Riverside Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0978097807

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Responsive Architectures by Philip Beesley Pdf

This book is about responsive architectures. The project is an exploration of the interconnectedness of what surrounds us. The focus of this collection is on a new generation of interactive systems within science, art and architecture that are based on constantly evolving relationships. Using a wide definition of architecture that includes both built and natural realms, we examine dynamic systems and environments of scales from molecules to cities. A responsive environment can be described as a networked structure that senses action within a field of attention and responds dynamically with programmed and designed logic. Focusing the issue of responsiveness more precisely within the field of architecture raises multiple questions: which parameters of such environments might a designer address in order to imaginatively employ their capacities for dynamic transform and interaction? These projects cast light on the subject of responsive architecture from diverse viewpoints derived from current architecture, science, and art practices. They examine the relation between a physical environment and its inhabitants and focus in particular on professional practice. How do responsive systems affect us? Scientific research, art and architecture come together in this multidisciplinary forum documenting the 2006 Subtle Technologies Festival of Art and Science. Subjects include electronic art and performance installations, research in cell structures and natural systems, and design of interactive buildings. Discussions include historical context and contemporary implications

Author : Lars Spuybroek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500342571

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Research & Design by Lars Spuybroek Pdf

Examines popular elements of modern architectural design, offering insight into the extensive research that informs the latest innovations in design and construction, in an essay-complemented, lavishly illustrated account that places an emphasis on the trend in mass-customization.

Author : Roy Ascott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520218035

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Telematic Embrace by Roy Ascott Pdf

Annotation Telematic Embrace combines a provocative collection of writings from 1964 to the present by the preeminent artist and art theoretician Roy Ascott, with a critical essay by Edward Shanken that situates Ascott's work within a history of ideas in art, technology, and philosophy.

Author : Andrea Simitch,Val Warke
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781627880480

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The Language of Architecture by Andrea Simitch,Val Warke Pdf

DIVLearning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines./divDIV /divDIVWhether you’re new to the field or have been an architect for years, you’ll want to flip through the pages of this book throughout your career and use it as the go-to reference for inspiration, ideas, and reminders of how a strong knowledge of the basics allows for meaningful, memorable, and beautiful fashions that extend beyond trends./divDIV /divDIVThis comprehensive learning tool is the one book you’ll want as a staple in your library./divDIV /div

Author : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Growth
ISBN : LCCN:42019010

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On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Pdf

Author : Robert Storr,John Keenen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961881

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Tony Smith by Robert Storr,John Keenen Pdf

Author : Michael Erlhoff,Timothy Marshall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783764381400

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Design Dictionary by Michael Erlhoff,Timothy Marshall Pdf

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design. The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.