Christina CogdellToward a Living Architecture?
Complexism and Biology in Generative Design
Christina Cogdell is professor of design and department chair at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s, winner of the Edelstein Prize for the History of Technology.
Introduction
1. Self-Organizing and Emergent Architecture
2. Material Computation
3. Morphogenesis and Evolutionary Computation
4. Context Matters: LabStudio and Biosynthesis
5. Growing Living Buildings: Tissue and Genetic Engineering in Architecture
and Design
6. “Protocell” Architecture and SynBioDesign
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Brief History of Complexity’s Intersections with Generative
Architecture
Notes
Index
