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Natural history and other fictions : an exhibition by Mark Dion.
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ISBN: 0907594522 Year: 1997 Publisher: Birmingham : Hamburg : Amsterdam : Ikon Gallery ; Kunstverein ; De Appel,

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ISBN: 0907594654 Year: 2000 Publisher: Birmingham : Ikon Gallery,

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Bourgeois, Louise ; Celmins, Vija ; de Cordier, Thierry ; Evans, Cerith Wyn ; Gonzalez-Torres, Felix ; Horn, Roni ; Kahlhamer, Brad ; Kippenberger, Martin ; Kovats, Tania ; Le Corbusier ; Martin, Agnes ; McCarthy, Paul ; Opie, Julian ; Patterson, Iain ; Shine, Vincent ; Tillmans, Wolfgang


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Animal beauty : on the evolution of biological aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780262039949 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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New organic architecture : the breaking wave
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ISBN: 0520232895 0520232887 9790520232890 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

Nature design : from inspiration to innovation
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ISBN: 9783037780985 Year: 2007 Publisher: Zürich : Lars Müller,

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Contents: Passage 1, Discovering Nature. Nature's Architecture: the Quest for the Laws of Form and the Critique of Historicism; Sea; Passage 2, Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau: the Shape of Life Topography Forest; Passage 3, 1930s-1970s. Double Helix and Blue Planet: the Visualisation of Nature in the Twentieth Cantury; Anthropomorphe Zoomorphe; Passage 4, Contemporary. Paradise Lost? Contemporary Strategies of nature Design Scent Climate."Nature has been a constant source of inspiration in the design of the human environment, and its influence on contemporary design is more than evident. The 'model of nature', with its forms, structures, and organizing principles, does not only inspire the widest range of concepts and design processes, but also can be expressed in a broad spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design addresses this phenomenon from the eighteenth century [to] today, and presents an international selection of objects and projects from the fields of design, architecture, landscape architecture, art, photography, and scientific research that do not simply depict or imitate nature, but use it as a starting point and reservoir of inspiration for eclectic and innovative responses to the relationship between man and his environment."The book is divided into different sections: the historical and theoretical backgrounds of culminating moments in the relationship between nature and design are exemplified in four "passages". They appear alternately with seven 'thematic landscapes' in which the whole spectrum of the inspiration of nature and the concern with its processes can be seen. The thematic landscapes are: the sea, topographic concepts, the forms and materials of forests and of plants, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic approaches, scent, and climate. Nature Design is intended to show the multiple possibilities in the rediscovery and reinvention of nature, and to open up new perspectives." quote Museum fu¨r Gestaltung, Zürich;met register en bibliografie

Nature and architecture
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ISBN: 8881186586 9788881186587 Year: 2000 Publisher: Milan : Skira,

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"Nature," wrote Novalis in a poem of Fragments, "is a magical city frozen in stone." This book, instead, considers architecture as the magical transcription of the shapes and laws of nature into the artificial universe of the city.&#13;&#13;Following on in the wake of modern art's urge to conjure up the primordial paths of expressionism, this book explores the natural origin of architectural archetypes: the column, the house, the wall, the door, the temple, the tower, etc. No matter the age or civilisation, all these elements are eternally present in the building activities of mankind.&#13;&#13;Evolving from research carried out in the sixties, this book not only examines the differences and similarities between natural and architectural forms, but it also draws comparisons between natural forms and the precepts and ideas that over the centuries have characterised the architecture of different cultures, not so much in order to highlight a manifest naturalistic inspiration but rather to comprehend the unity to which the human mind and the secret order of natural forms both belong.&#13;&#13;While acknowledging the central role of ecology, this book refers to the extraordinary achievements of science, especially the one that goes by the name of "new paradigm," to show architecture the way in which continuity and innovation can finally unite. An architecture which, fuelled by the spirit of a new alliance, becomes again the art of inhabiting the earth, putting aside its role as instrument and emblem of that thirst for dominion and violence enunciated by Bacon. A feminine architecture, far from the arrogance of the Babelic twilight years of the 20th century.


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Landscape as world picture : tracing cultural evolution in images
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ISBN: 9788779342873 8779342876 Year: 2009 Publisher: Aarhus : Oakville, Conn. : Aarhus University Press ; David Brown Book Co.,


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Brunelleschi's egg : nature, art, and gender in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780520261525 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

Rousseau's theory of literature : the poetics of art and nature
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ISBN: 0917786092 9780917786099 Year: 1979 Publisher: York, S.C. : French Literature Publications Co.,


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Earth and ocean : the terrestrial world in early Byzantine art
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ISBN: 0271004770 Year: 1987 Volume: vol 43 Publisher: University Park London Pennsylvania State University Press

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