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Author(s) -
Preissner Paul
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1218
Subject(s) - protocell , living matter , architecture , computer science , tower , engineering , artificial intelligence , visual arts , biology , civil engineering , art , living systems , genetics , membrane
Paul Preissner provides a typological prototype for the protocell, the Protocell Tower. Does it, however, already look familiar? Though a breathtaking chemical innovation, could protocell technology actually be behind the curve of architecture? Could it be that architects have already been playing with the aesthetics of this unrealised matter for the last 15 years? Preissner suggests some urban approaches that might enable us to use protocells to rejuvenate existing architecture. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.