Protocell Architecture

Author:   Neil Spiller ,  Rachel Armstrong
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:  

9780470748282


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   18 March 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Protocell Architecture


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Throughout the ages architects have attempted to capture the essence of living systems as design inspiration. However, practitioners of the built environment have had to deal with a fundamental split between the artificial urban landscape and nature owing to a technological 'gap' that means architects have been unable to make effective use of biological systems in urban environments. Protocell Architecture is an edition of AD that shows for the first time that contemporary architects can create and construct architectures that are bottom up, synthetically biological, green and have no recourse to shallow bio-mimicry. In the next few decades, synthetic biology is set to have as much, if not more, impact on architecture as cyberspace and the digital. The key to these amazing architectural innovations is the Protocell.

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Author:   Neil Spiller ,  Rachel Armstrong
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 20.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9780470748282


ISBN 10:   0470748281
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   18 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL (Helen Castle). ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS (Neil Spiller and Rachel Armstrong). SPOTLIGHT. Visual highlights of the issue. INTRODUCTION. It's a Brand New Morning (Neil Spiller and Rachel Armstrong). Structure and the Synthesis of Life (Martin Hanczyc). Defining New Architectural Design Principles with 'Living' Inorganic Materials (Leroy Cronin). Cronin pioneers a fundamentally new approach to materials, scaling up from the nanoscale. Dream a Little Dream (Mark Morris). An Architectural Chemistry (Omar Khan). Protocells: The Universal Solvent (Neil Spiller). How Protocells Can Make 'Stuff' Much More Interesting (Rachel Armstrong). Soil and Protoplasm: The Hylozoic Ground project (Philip Beesley and Rachel Armstrong). Authorship at Risk: The Role of the Architect (Dan Slavinsky). Proto-Design: Architecture's Primordial Soup and the Quest for Units of Synthetic Life (Neri Oxman). Oxman explores how material properties are a potent intermediary for the built environment. Back to the Future (Paul Preissner). Line Array: Protocells as Dynamic Structure IwamotoScott Architecture (Lisa Iwamoto) AVATAR and the Politics of Protocell Architecture (Nic Clear). COUNTERPOINT. Bettering Biology? (Bill Watts).

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Neil Spiller is Head of the School of Architecture & Construction at the University of Greenwich, London. Director of The AVATAR Research Group, he was previously Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and Vice Dean of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London. He is on the Editorial Boards of Architectural Design and Technoetic Arts magazines. He lectures around the world and his work has been exhibited and published worldwide. He is a visionary architect and has an international reputation as an innovative architect, critic, theorist, teacher and author. Rachel Armstrong is a medical doctor, author, AVATAR Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

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