I am writing my Proposal for PhD in Architecture and I need someone who has knowledge in Biomimicry to suggest me some interesting and modern topics in Biomimicry in Architecture which can be used as a research for PhD.
regards
As an Aristotle specialist I can't help you with modern topics related to biomimicry in architecture, but not only did polymath D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson translate Aristotle's History of Animals, Aristotle's attention to form and function inspired him to write what must be one of the founding documents in your field, the 99-year-old On Growth and Form (1917).
You may know it well, Saam, but for those who do not, these are the subjects discussed and profusely illustrated:
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CONTENTS
I. Introductory 1
II. On Magnitude 22
III. The Rate of Growth 78
IV. On the Internal Form and Structure of the Cell . . 286
V. The Forms of Cells 346
VI. A Note on Adsorption 444
VII. The Forms of Tissues, or Cell-aggregates . . . 465
VIII. The same (continued) . . 566
IX. On Concretions, Spicules, and Spicular Skeletons . . 645
X. A Parenthetic Note on Geodetics 741
XI. The Equiangular Spiral 748
XII. The Spiral Shells of the Foraminifera .... 850
XIII. The Shapes of Horns, and of Teeth or Tusks: with a Note on Torsion 874
XIV. On Leaf-arrangement, or Phyllotaxis .... 912
XV. On the Shapes of Eggs, and of certain other Hollow Structures 934
XVI. On Form and Mechanical Efficiency .... 958
XVII. On the Theory of Transformations, or the Comparison of Related Forms 1026
Epilogue 1093
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You can buy excellent reprints of it, a Kindle version, etc. and you can get free ebook versions of a grittier quality from: https://archive.org/details/ongrowthform00thom .
Of those the cleanest reading copy may be https://archive.org/download/ongrowthform00thom/ongrowthform00thom_bw.pdf , but other versions will have clearer illustrations. For almost a century this work has been inspiring designers and, modern or not, will continue to do so.
Regards,
Ralph
https://archive.org/details/ongrowthform00thom
https://archive.org/download/ongrowthform00thom/ongrowthform00thom_bw.pdf
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