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The Cathedral Is Alive: Animating Biomimetic Architecture

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; ELISAVA: Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona); 40 Camino Cielo, Santa Fe, NM 87506, USA exodesic{at}mac.com

The Cathedral as an animation with implications for genetic architecture and strategies for design-biomimetics, this article argues (with experimental illustrations) for the use of animation in architectural research that is consistent with software visualization and fully capable of contributing to the design-thinking process. Repudiating the use of animation as merely a medium for architectural presentation and affirming the coupling of animation and design-biomimetics, Dollens considers how animation can stimulate and develop architectural ideas, forms, and design through the digital revisualization of natural elements evolving from plants, shells, and skeletons.

Key Words: animation • architecture theory • biomimetics • biomimicry • design • generative design • morphology • The Cathedral

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Animation, Vol. 1, No. 1, 105-117 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1746847706065844


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