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Inspired By Nature: Plants: The Building Botany Connection
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Inspired By Nature: Plants: The Building Botany Connection
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by Alejandro Bahamon, Patricia Perez, and Alex Campello
Sales Rank : 296137
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton April 28, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393732517
ISBN-13: 978-0393732511
Product Dimensions:
9.4 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.
Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by important architects, from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, reveals conscious and unconscious visual analogies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure. 246 color, 125 line illustrations.
About The Author
Alejandro Bahamón and Alex Campello, architects, and Patricia Pérez, a landscape engineer, live in Spain.
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