Building Nature: On Sex and Ducks, Chicken and Shit, Architecture and Apples

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. Foreword 8
4. Preface 10
5. Introduction 16
6. Bioinspiration
7. Quasiperiodic Near–Living Systems: Paradigms for Form–Language 24
8. Ecology beyond Nature 34
9. Meteorosensitive Architectures 39
10. In[form]ations: Digital Matter on Buildings and Cities 43
11. Building Nature: On Sex and Ducks, Chicken and Shit, Architecture and Apples 49
12. Conversation 54
13. Materiability
14. Domesticating a World of Printed Physics 60
15. Beyond Performance 72
16. Adapting Matter 78
17. Bioluminescence: Toward Design with Living Light 82
18. Smart Materials: Designing a Timescape of Interconnectivity for more Resilient Practices of Inhabitation 86
19. The Unconventional Electronics Approach to the Internet of Things 92
20. Conversation 98
21. Intelligence
22. Caught in the Act 112
23. Spatial Computing in Interactive Architecture 120
24. Polyomino: The Missing Topology Mechanic 125
25. Architecture and Audience 129
26. Approaching Distributed Architectural Ecosystems 133
27. Conversation 140
28. Outlook
29. Adaptive Architecture: Low–Tech, High–Tech, or Both? 148
30. Postscript
31. The Quickness of Matter, doped in its Polyalphabetic Textuality: or, The Articulation of Articles, beyond Prescript and Postscript 158
32. Images. Biographies. Credits 164
33. Index. Imprint + Acknowledgments 214