Inspired by Nature: Animals: The Building/Biology Connection

by Alejandro Bahamón and Patricia Pérez

Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture--whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons--has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Animals focuses on specific analogies, comparing and contrasting techniques and materials used in animal constructions with examples of human architecture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393732711
• ISBN13: 9780393732719
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 9.4"