Bettering Biology?

✍ Scribed by Bill Watts

• Book ID: 102685676
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 591 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-8504
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1221

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Is there a danger that in inventing protocells we are turning away too quickly from nature's own ‘beautifully engineered self‐assembly system’? Bill Watts, a partner at Max Fordham Consulting Engineers, asks us to take another look at the possibilities of biology for creating a wholly sustainable architecture that takes its aesthetic prompts from natural forms. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.