{"product_id":"living-construction-9781138363038","title":"Living Construction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eLiving Construction\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how living cells construct and transform materials through methods of fabrication and assembly at multiple scales and how designers can utilize these p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This inspiring and informative book asks how we might construct material structures using biology. Its author, an architect and qualified synthetic biologist, is uniquely able to combine ambitious design and down-to-bench realism. Constructed around ideas – of life, of design, of fabrication – the book provides an ideal springboard to a biological architecture grounded, not in conceptual fantasies, but on what might really be achieved.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJamie A. Davies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Professor of Experimental Anatomy, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLiving Construction\u003c\/em\u003e is a readable synthesis of important principles for the new field of biodesign, written by someone with graduate training in both architecture and synthetic biology. Dade-Robertson clearly knows the details but has the gift of extrapolating these into accurate yet broad generalities. While design and biology each has its disciplinary theories and practices, this book distills sound principles for their intersection in biodesign, offering a very useful contemporary map for practitioners in the arts and sciences. I especially admire his answer to his own question, 'where is the information in biological assembly?', for how it addresses multiple scales simultaneously. This is a key primer for all students in biodesign.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Cogdell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eProfessor, University of California at Davis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction 2. The designs of the natural 3. The logic of living assembly 4. Fabrication in the living 5. Conclusion: the craft of living construction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577822613847,"sku":"9781138363038","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138363038.jpg?v=1746096816","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-construction-9781138363038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}