About this Book

- Introduction - Lessons from Nature - design through evolution - Primitive Structures - design through intuition - Master builders and beyond - design from precedent - Scientific principles and new materials - design through new possibilities - Learning from physical models - design through experimentation - Case study 1: Clearwater garden pavilion by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and Jane Wernick Associates - Case study 2: Building with nothing at all: Glass Structures by Dirk Jan Postel and Robert Nijsse - Case study 3: Stacked landscape: Dutch Expo Pavilion 2000 by MVRDV and ABT Consulting Engineer - Case study 4: Capsules of plant life from Plant Earth: The Eden Project by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects and Anthony Hunt Associates - Postscript - Bibliography - Index