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- catalog abstract ""Humans owe an immense architectural debt to other species. The first hexagons humans saw may have been in honeycombs, the first skyscrapers termitaries (termite high-rises), and the first tents those of African weaver ants. In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Natural building materials such as wood and limestone, for example, originate in biological processes. Much architectural ornament borrows from botany and zoology. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal species. He examines the relationship between physical structures and living organisms, from bridges to mosques, from molecules to mammals."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11054507.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Humans owe an immense architectural debt to other species. The first hexagons humans saw may have been in honeycombs, the first skyscrapers termitaries (termite high-rises), and the first tents those of African weaver ants. In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Natural building materials such as wood and limestone, for example, originate in biological processes. Much architectural ornament borrows from botany and zoology. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal species. He examines the relationship between physical structures and living organisms, from bridges to mosques, from molecules to mammals."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1 Molecules, Viruses, and Cells 1 -- 2 Leaves and Flowers 25 -- 3 Shells 41 -- 4 Insects 61 -- 5 Birds 79 -- 6 Mammals: Territory and Reproductive Rights 97 -- 7 Penis Paradigms 115 -- 8 The Female Genital Palace 137 -- 9 The Biology of Architectural Reproduction 157 -- 10 Where to Now? 179.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 244 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262082748 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "720/.1 21".
- catalog subject "Architectural design.".
- catalog subject "Architecture Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Architecture and society.".
- catalog subject "NA2500 .H388 1999".
- catalog subject "Nature (Aesthetics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Molecules, Viruses, and Cells 1 -- 2 Leaves and Flowers 25 -- 3 Shells 41 -- 4 Insects 61 -- 5 Birds 79 -- 6 Mammals: Territory and Reproductive Rights 97 -- 7 Penis Paradigms 115 -- 8 The Female Genital Palace 137 -- 9 The Biology of Architectural Reproduction 157 -- 10 Where to Now? 179.".
- catalog title "The monumental impulse : architecture's biological roots / George Hersey.".
- catalog type "text".