TY - BOOK ID - 5705097 TI - Nature design : from inspiration to innovation AU - Bergdoll, Barry AU - Gamboni, Dario AU - Ursprung, Philip AU - Sachs, Angeli AU - Museum für Gestaltung Zürich PY - 2007 SN - 9783037780985 PB - Zürich : Lars Müller, DB - UniCat KW - Design KW - motieven KW - 18e eeuw KW - art nouveau KW - eigen tijd KW - Europa KW - Nature (esthétique) KW - Design industriel KW - 749.04 KW - Industrieel design ; invloeden uit de natuur KW - Architectuur ; invloeden uit de natuur KW - Meubelkunst en design ; iconografie, thema's KW - Design industriel. KW - 18de eeuw UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5705097 AB - Contents: Passage 1, Discovering Nature. Nature's Architecture: the Quest for the Laws of Form and the Critique of Historicism; Sea; Passage 2, Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau: the Shape of Life Topography Forest; Passage 3, 1930s-1970s. Double Helix and Blue Planet: the Visualisation of Nature in the Twentieth Cantury; Anthropomorphe Zoomorphe; Passage 4, Contemporary. Paradise Lost? Contemporary Strategies of nature Design Scent Climate."Nature has been a constant source of inspiration in the design of the human environment, and its influence on contemporary design is more than evident. The 'model of nature', with its forms, structures, and organizing principles, does not only inspire the widest range of concepts and design processes, but also can be expressed in a broad spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design addresses this phenomenon from the eighteenth century [to] today, and presents an international selection of objects and projects from the fields of design, architecture, landscape architecture, art, photography, and scientific research that do not simply depict or imitate nature, but use it as a starting point and reservoir of inspiration for eclectic and innovative responses to the relationship between man and his environment."The book is divided into different sections: the historical and theoretical backgrounds of culminating moments in the relationship between nature and design are exemplified in four "passages". They appear alternately with seven 'thematic landscapes' in which the whole spectrum of the inspiration of nature and the concern with its processes can be seen. The thematic landscapes are: the sea, topographic concepts, the forms and materials of forests and of plants, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic approaches, scent, and climate. Nature Design is intended to show the multiple possibilities in the rediscovery and reinvention of nature, and to open up new perspectives." quote Museum fu¨r Gestaltung, Zürich;met register en bibliografie ER -