Inspired by Nature: Plants: The Building/Botany Connection (Inspired by Nature) [Paperback]

Alejandro Bahamón (Author), Alex Campello (Author), Patricia Pérez (Author)

Book Description

Series: Inspired by Nature | Publication Date: April 17, 2008

A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.

Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by important architects, from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, reveals conscious and unconscious visual analogies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure.

246 color & 125 line illustrations

Editorial Reviews

Review

Every building example in this photo-heavy book is fascinating both architecturally and as a reflection of...plant strategy. (The Sante Fe New Mexican )

About the Author

Alejandro Bahamón, an architect, photographer, and editor of architecture books, is the author of numerous publications on contemporary architecture, including Sketch Plan Build, The Magic of Tents, Treehouses, Glass Houses, Houses on the Edge, and (with Ana María Álvarez), Light Color Sound. He lives in Barcelona.

Alex Campello is an architect who lives in Spain.

Patricia Pérez, a landscape engineer, directs the landscape architecture department at the Diputación de Barcelona and is a professor in the master of landscape architecture program at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (April 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393732517
• ISBN-13: 978-0393732511
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,195,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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