This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been
made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of
artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these
analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how
recent biological thinking has relevance for design.
Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration
since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate
the forms of plants and animals, but to find methods in design
analogous to the processes of growth and evolution in nature.
This new revised edition of this classic work adds an extended
Afterword covering recent developments such as the introduction of
computer methods in design in the 1980s and '90s, which have made
possible a new kind of 'biomorphic' architecture through 'genetic
algorithms' and other programming techniques.
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