文档介绍：The Evolution of
Designs
The Evolution of Designs tells the history of the many analogies that have been
made between the evolution anisms 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 beginnings of the science in the early eenth 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.
Biological ideas are prominent in the writings of many modern architects,
of whom Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright are just the most famous.
Le Corbusier declared biology to be ‘the great new word in architecture
and planning’.
Since the first edition of The Evolution of Designs was published in
1979, there has been a resurgence of interest in biological analogy. This is in
part because of the introduction puter methods in design in the 1980s
and 1990s which have made possible a new kind of ‘biomorphic’ architecture
through ‘ic algorithms’ and other programming techniques. This new
revised edition of this classic work adds an extended Afterword covering these
more recent developments.
Philip Steadman is Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at The Bartlett
School (Faculty of the Built Environment), University College London, UK.
The Evolution of
Designs
Biological analogy in architecture and
the applied arts
A revised edition
Philip Steadman
First published 1979
by the Syndics of Cambridge University Press
This revised edition published 2008
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