Engineering Ecologies

✍ Scribed by Peter Trummer

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 876 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-8504
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.647

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Engineering disciplines have, historically, been strongly dominated by physics. Structural and civil engineering are still based on the notion of controlling the forces of physics within our material world. However, a shift from physics to biology as the underlying paradigm of engineering is on the horizon, and with it a fundamental change in the way we conceive and practise architecture. Peter Trummer speculates on the possibilities and potential repercussions of ‘engineering ecologies’, which will be inherent to such a paradigm shift, by investigating a broad palette of contemporary design disciplines aimed at the careful modulation of environments and ecologies. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.