The Monumental Impulse
Architecture's Biological Roots
by George L. Hersey
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Humans owe an immense architectural debt to other species. The first hexagons humans saw may have been in honeycombs, the first skyscrapers termitaries (termite high-rises), and the first tents those of African weaver ants. In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Natural building materials such as wood and limestone, for example, originate in biological processes.
Much architectural ornament borrows from botany and zoology. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal species. He examines the relationship between physical structures and living organisms, from bridges to mosques, from molecules to mammals.
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The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots
February 19, 2001, The MIT Press
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0262582031 9780262582032
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The monumental impulse: architecture's biological roots
1999, MIT Press
in English
0262082748 9780262082747
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