ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It proposes an emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its historical and theoretical foundations from the perspective of artists, architects, designers, scientists, historians, and theoreticians. Includes over 150 black and white images.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |164 pages

Biologies and Architectural Histories

chapter |35 pages

The Biocentric Bauhaus

chapter |19 pages

Biology in Architecture

The Goetheanum Case Study

chapter |19 pages

Birds of a Feather

Habit, Habituate, Habitat, Habitivity

chapter |24 pages

Ouroboros Architecture1

chapter |20 pages

Architectures of Aliveness

Building Beyond Gravity

chapter |21 pages

The Gene in Context

Complex Biological Systems as a Model for Generative Architecture

part |84 pages

Biologies and Architectural Theories and Practices

chapter |9 pages

Epiphyte Chamber

Responsive Architecture and Dissipative Design

chapter |21 pages

Architecture and Living Matter(s)

From Art/Architectural Installations to Metabolic Aesthetics

chapter |18 pages

Morphogenesis and Design

Thinking through Analogs

chapter |9 pages

Your Rotten Future Will Be Great

part |124 pages

Biologies and Art Histories

chapter |18 pages

Mind Matrix

Situating Cognition in the Sculptural Grid

chapter |11 pages

“An Eccentric Kind of Teaching Machine”

The Ritual Spaces of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison

chapter |21 pages

Underwater Music

Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science1

part |144 pages

Biologies and Art Theories and Practices

chapter |24 pages

Evolutionary Yarns in Seahorse Valley

Living Tissues, Wooly Textiles, Theoretical Biologies

chapter |13 pages

Vital Tissue Constructs

chapter |8 pages

Demonstrable Plasticity

chapter |16 pages

From Materiality to Machines

Manufacturing the Organic and Hypotheses for Future Imaginings

chapter |9 pages

The Sixth Element

DIY Cyborgs and the Hive Mind of Social Media

chapter |15 pages

A Longing in Our Hearts

Interspecies Communication in Contemporary Art1

chapter |22 pages

Self-Portrait of the Artist Meditating on Death

A Feminist Technoscience Reading of the Apparatus of Contemporary Neuroscience Experiments1

chapter |11 pages

Piper in the Woods

Men Becoming Trees1

chapter |14 pages

Axioms on Art and Gene Action

Pathways to Expression