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Toward a Living Architecture?

Contents

Contents

Introduction

1. Self-Organizing and Emergent Architecture

2. Material Computation

3. Morphogenesis and Evolutionary Computation

4. Context Matters: LabStudio and Biosynthesis

5. Growing Living Buildings: Tissue and Genetic Engineering in Architecture and Design

6. “Protocell” Architecture and SynBioDesign

Appendix: Brief History of Complexity’s Intersections with Generative Architecture

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Color Plates

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial support for the publication of this book from the Office of Research and College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

Copyright 2018 by Christina Cogdell.

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