Posted by Matt Hildebrandt on November 15, 2002 at 01:29:24:In Reply to: ArchWeek - Concept Biomimetic posted by Kevin Matthews on June 19, 2002 at 23:45:12:
Why can't architecture be inspired by both abstract concepts of the natural systems and formal qualities? I find the emphasis we place on abstraction limiting. Additionally this kind of architecture is wholly appropriate for our culture of advancing technology; it pushes the limits of what we can build just as steel did last century. One of the notable instructors at this program, Dennis Dollens, not a Catalonian incidently, does do experiments with systems such as tumbleweed structure as well as formal exploration. His interest in structure and skin is shown in his work of spray papercrete solutions that harden to a thin shell and can easily be used quickly and en masse. It will be interesting to watch if and how, as mass-production of organic forms becomes common-place, its novelty and dramatic effect wanes.
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