Description
| Product ID: | 9781138363038 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Bio Design |
| Title: | Living Construction |
| Authors: | Author: Martyn Dade-Robertson |
| Page Count: | 106 |
| Subjects: | Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Industrial / commercial art & design, Architectural structure and design, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, Architecture: professional practice, Biology, life sciences, Technical design, Biotechnology, Materials science, Architectural structure & design, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Architecture: professional practice, Biology, life sciences, Technical design, Biotechnology, Materials science |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book, the first in the Bio Design series, acts as a bridge between design speculation and scientific reality, and between contemporary design thinking, in areas such as architecture, product design and fashion design, and the traditional engineering approaches which currently dominate bio technologies. Modern biotechnologies give us unprecedented control of the fundamental building blocks of life. For designers, across a range of disciplines, emerging fields such as synthetic biology offer the promise of new sustainable materials and structures which may be grown, are self-assembling, self-healing and adaptable to change. While there is a thriving speculative discourse on the future of design in the age of biotechnology, there are few realized design applications. This book, the first in the Bio Design series, acts as a bridge between design speculation and scientific reality and between contemporary design thinking, in areas such as architecture, product design and fashion design, and the traditional engineering approaches which currently dominate biotechnologies. Filled with real examples, Living Construction reveals how living cells construct and transform materials through methods of fabrication and assembly at multiple scales and how designers can utilize these processes. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-29 |