Emergent Technologies and Design

by Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel, Achim Menges

Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties 'emerge' from within complex systems

Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true - that those structures are complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415493447
• ISBN13: 9780415493444
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.6"