This book sets out the conditions under which the need for a new approach to the production of architecture in the twenty-first century is established, where our homes and cities are facing increasing pressures from environmental challenges that are compromising our lives and well being. Vibrant architecture embodies a new kind of architectural design practice that explores how lively materials, or 'vibrant matter', may be incorporated into our buildings to confer on them some of the properties of living things, such as movement, growth, sensitivity and self-repair. The theoretical and...
This book sets out the conditions under which the need for a new approach to the production of architecture in the twenty-first century is establis...
Taking a radical multi-disciplinary view of the challenge of human space colonization through project Persephone, part of Icarus Interstellar s plans for the design and engineering of a living interior on a worldship, this book challenges ideas about sustainability and proposes a new approach to the evolution of non-terrestrial ecologies.
Taking a radical multi-disciplinary view of the challenge of human space colonization through project Persephone, part of Icarus Interstellar s plans ...
