FORM FOLLOWS NATURE

Description

Form Follows Nature : A History of Nature as Model for Design in Engineering, Architecture and Art

• Previously unpublished new interview with the 2015 Pritzker Prize winner Frei Otto
• New foreword by Kristin Feireiss
• Anonymous buildings, lightweight construction, organic building, animal structures etc.

Since the beginning of time mankind has dealt with nature as a role model, goal and challenge in its model of perfection. Nature is in many different ways a pool for the productive human being, but also a counterpoint to his/her own work. Both the energetic and constructively optimised forms as well as the adaptability and variety serve as role models. Natural scientists, engineers, architects and artists draw from the rich inspirational pool of nature, they learn from and are inspired by nature. The book is an outline of the history of the human examination of nature and presents a perspective for further possible lessons from nature.

CONTENTS

• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Form Follows Nature
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Liquid wood. Conversation with Frei Otto, August 8, 2013, in Warmbronn
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Chiesa in Olevano Romano
• Dieter Dolezer: Matters of Form. Music, Nature and Memory
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: The Inverse Route. Interview with Frei Otto, March 28 and October 28, 2008
• Werner Nachtigall: Nature – A Test Lab. Developing and Contructing Accordng to Biological Archetypes
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Form Follows Nature
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Organic Architecture, 5 Projects by Finsterwalder Architecten
• Carsten Nicolai: milch, 2000
• Ian Stewart: Nature’s Patterns
• Frei Otto: Crustaceans and Sea Urchins
• Frei Otto: Forming Bubbles
• Günther Hartmann: Domestic Architecture of the Native People
• Eda Schaur: Building Methods of Living Nature
• Cornelius Thywissen: Animal Structures: Between Specialisation and Adaption
• Cornelius Thywissen: Constructions of Non-Living Nature
• Frei Otto: Growing and Dividing Pneus
• Paul Bühler: Sandwich Structures in the Skull Capsules of Various Birds. The Principle of Lightweight Structure in Organisms
• Oskar Prochnow: Formative Art Nature
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Organic Architecture
• Joachim Krausse: Star Show and Gridshell Construction
• Rudolf Finsterwalder: Herman Finsterlin. A Fantastic Architect
• D’Arcy W. Thompson: On Spicules and Spicular Skeletons
• Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms from Nature
• Johannes Kepler: Strena. About the Hexagonal Snow

504 pages, 450 colour illustrations / 20,5 x 27 cm / German, English