From Life to Architecture, to Life

The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- Part 1. Architecture to Biosemiotics.- 2. The Essence of Architectural Creation.- 3. Architecture is like a Language.- Part 2. Biosemiotics to Architecture.- 4. Computing Life and Architecture.- 5. A Biosemiotic Conception of Space.- Part 3. Architecture to Life.- 6. Architecture and Life.

About the author

Tim Ireland is an architect and lecturer of digital architecture at the Sheffield School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK. Interested in natural systems and computation his teaching and research focus on biological theory, semiotics and computational design. 

Product details

• Authors: Tim Ireland
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9783031459276
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3145927-6
• No. of pages: 409
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 24 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 663 g
• Illustrations: XXX, 409 p. 122 illus., 73 illus. in color.
• Series: Biosemiotics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophie, Architekturtheorie, Geschichte der Architektur, Interdisziplinäre Studien, Biowissenschaften, allgemein, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Life Sciences, Origin, Semiotics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Jakob von Uexküll, Philosophy of Biology, Architectural History and Theory, Architectural Design, spatial intelligence, architectural-biosemiotic paradigm