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Engineering Ecologies

  1. Peter Trummer

Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ad.647

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Versatility and Vicissitude

Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 96–101, March/April 2008

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Trummer, P. (2008), Engineering Ecologies. Archit Design, 78: 96–101. doi: 10.1002/ad.647

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  1. Issue published online: 6 MAR 2008
  2. Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

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Keywords:

  • New Forms of Settlements, Associative Design & Synthetic Vernacular research programme (directed by Peter Trummer), Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2006-07;
  • urbanisation;
  • Freeman Dyson, ‘Our Biotech Future’, 2007;
  • genetic engineering;
  • Carl Woese;
  • ‘A new biology for a new century’;
  • reductionist biology;
  • The Three Ecologies;
  • Felix Guattari;
  • Alain Bombard;
  • Theo Jansen, Strandbeest, Ijmuiden, The Netherlands, 2005;
  • Ernst Haeckel;
  • Fraser Island;
  • Rijkswaterstaat;
  • Dutch Ministry of Water;
  • artificial beach animals;
  • Animaris Rhinoceros;
  • yellow electricity tubes;
  • wind-powered;
  • context-specific;
  • Tube 6;
  • aqua-dynamic conditions;
  • ‘wave shoulders’;
  • ‘wave tubes’;
  • river Isar;
  • Markus Gruber and Dr Markus Aufleger;
  • Technical University of Munich;
  • Luming Wang and Zenfrei Wang, Associative Design & Synthetic Vernacular research programme (directed by Peter Trummer), Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2006-07;
  • Jiangnan River Delta;
  • Ming-Ying Tsai and Sheng-Ming Wu

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.

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