Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Angeli Sachs (eds.)

Nature Design

From Inspiration to Innovation

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment, but in recent years this relationship has grown even more intense. “Nature as model” has influenced the most diverse possible concepts and developmental processes and is revealed in a large spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design brings together projects and objects from design, architecture, landscape architecture, photography, and art that have been inspired by nature to develop complex and innovative works. The protagonists include Werner Aisslinger, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Ross Lovegrove, Olaf Nicolai, Francois Roche, Lars Spuybroek, and Günther Vogt, among others. The book covers the historical and theoretical fundamentals of the themes sea, topography, plants, human beings, animals, scent, and climate. Nature Design is intended to reveal the diversity of possibilities for copying and reinventing nature and to open up new perspectives.

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment, but in recent years this relationship has grown even more intense. “Nature as model” has influenced the most diverse possible concepts and developmental processes and is revealed in a large spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design brings together projects and objects from design, architecture, landscape architecture, photography, and art that have been inspired by nature to develop complex and innovative works. The protagonists include Werner Aisslinger, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Ross Lovegrove, Olaf Nicolai, Francois Roche, Lars Spuybroek, and Günther Vogt, among others. The book covers the historical and theoretical fundamentals of the themes sea, topography, plants, human beings, animals, scent, and climate. Nature Design is intended to reveal the diversity of possibilities for copying and reinventing nature and to open up new perspectives.

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Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Angeli Sachs

With contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Dario Gamboni, Philip Ursprung

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 x 24,0 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

320 pages, 318 illustrations

paperback

2007, 978-3-03778-098-5, English
CHF 20.00
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Angeli Sachs

Angeli Sachs (*1956) is an art historian, curator and museologist. Until 2019, she was curator at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and until 2012 she was head of exhibitions at the same institution. From 2009 until 2022, she was head of the Master's Programme in Art Education / Curatorial Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts. Angeli has published widely on architecture, design, art, culture and curatorial studies of the 20th and 21st century and she has curated numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, including “Social Design” at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum from 2018–2021.

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