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Inspired by Nature: Plants: The Building/Botany Connection
Contributor(s): Bahamón, Alejandro (Author), Campello, Alex (Author), Pérez, Patricia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393732517     ISBN-13: 9780393732511
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2008
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Annotation: A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.
Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by important architects, from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, reveals conscious and unconscious visual analogies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure. 246 color, 125 line illustrations.

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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
- Architecture | Methods & Materials
- Nature | Plants - General
Dewey: 720
LCCN: 2007030102
Series: Inspired by Nature
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 7.03" W x 10.18" L (1.47 lbs) 192 pages
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 270
 
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Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by important architects, from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, reveals conscious and unconscious visual analogies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure.

Contributor Bio(s): Bahamon, Alejandro: - Alejandro Bahamón, an architect, photographer, and editor of architecture books, is the author of numerous publications on contemporary architecture, including Sketch Plan Build, The Magic of Tents, Treehouses, Glass Houses, Houses on the Edge, and (with Ana María Álvarez), Light Color Sound. He lives in Barcelona.Perez, Patricia: - Patricia Pérez, a landscape engineer, directs the landscape architecture department at the Diputación de Barcelona and is a professor in the master of landscape architecture program at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.Campello, Alex: - Alex Campello is an architect who lives in Spain.
 
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