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From Life to Architecture, to Life

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  • First book to establish a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project
  • Illustrates how signs may be understood as forces that inform and direct an organism’s engagement with its environment using Jakob von Uexküll’s (1864 - 1944) sign oriented notion of space
  • Sets out to establish a framework for an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of building an environment that supports (and benefits) human, organismic, and spatial intelligence

Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 27)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Architecture to Biosemiotics

  2. Biosemiotics to Architecture

  3. Architecture to Life

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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sheffield School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Tim Ireland

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. 

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