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Beauty as Ecological Intelligence: Bio‐digital Aesthetics as a Value System of Post‐Anthropocene Architecture
Author(s) -
Pasquero Claudia,
Poletto Marco
Publication year - 2019
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.2480
Subject(s) - anthropocene , beauty , architecture , value (mathematics) , aesthetics , environmental ethics , ecology , sociology , art , computer science , visual arts , philosophy , biology , machine learning
By incorporating living micro‐organisms within architecture, London‐based ecoLogicStudio have found ways to read their evolving appearance as a measure of environmental value. Practice partners Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto combine this approach with digital techniques to create arresting architectural assimilations of the organic and the inorganic that celebrate the beauty of non‐human intelligence.