Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of seve[...]
Presents the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. This book examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how biological thinking has relevance for [...]