[PDF.18at] The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots

The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots

[PDF.ys94] The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots

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 | #4347843 in Books |  2001-02-23 | Format: Bargain Price | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x7.00l, | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||5 of 25 people found the following review helpful.| how theory gets a bad name...|By M. Studer|i picked up this title, in part, to locate catherine ingraham's latest historicization of 'life' and 'architecture's indifference to each other, expecting to find some sort of oppositional model of phenomenological essentialism and anologism that naturalizes architecture (as the title proclaims). granted, i'd not expected much, but ev| ||"In this engaging, eminently readable, and frequently surprisingexploration of the human urge to build, Hersey invites us to viewarchitecture from an unaccustomed perspective—the perspective ofbiology.... With this coupling of architecture and biology,

We humans owe an immense architectural debt to many other species. Indeed, the first hexagons humans saw may have been in honeycombs, the first skyscrapers termitaries (termite high-rises), and the first tents those of African weaver ants. In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Natural building materials such as wood and limestone, for example, originate in biological process...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots   |  George L. Hersey. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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