Architecture by Birds and Insects - A Natural Art
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date of Publication 12 August 2008
- ISBN 9780226500973
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages128 pages
- Size 234x160x18 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A celebration of natural feats of engineering, this volume allows readers a peek inside a wide range of nests, offering an opportunity to get a sense of the materials and methods used to build them. It is inspired by the nest collection at the Field Museum, Chicago, which features specimens gathered throughout North and South America.
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Architect Philip Johnson once mused, All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space." But with just a small swap of a key word Johnson could well have been describing animal nests. Birds and insects are nature's premier architects using a dizzying array of talents to build functional homes in which to live reproduce and care for their young. Recycling sticks branches grass and mud to construct their shelters they are undoubtedly the originators of "green architecture."A visual celebration of these natural feats of engineering and ingenuity "Architecture by Birds and Insects" allows readers a peek inside a wide range of nests offering a rare opportunity to get a sense of the materials and methods used to build them. Inspired by the vast nest collection at the Field Museum Chicago which features specimens gathered throughout North and South America Peggy Macnamara's paintings are enhanced by text written by museum curators. This narrative provides a foundation in natural history for each painting as well as fascinating anecdotes about the nests and their builders.Like so many natural treasures nests are easy to ignore.; But Macnamara's gorgeous paintings will undoubtedly change that. "Architecture by Birds and Insects" at last gives the tiniest engineers their rightful moment in the spotlight and in so doing increases awareness and encourages the protection of birds insects and their habitats. Readers will never look at a Frank Gehry design or a treetop nest the same way again."
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