Dream a Little Dream |
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| Authors: | Mark Morris |
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| Abstract: | Does the protocell require too great a leap in scalar imagination for architects? A detail of a building is manageable but what about something smaller than the microscopic? Mark Morris encourages designers to scale down to the diminutive level of the nanoscale by providing them with some inspiring precedents in architectural theory and popular culture. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | JJ Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), The Dragon, 1840 Richard of Gloucester, in William Shakespeare, Henry VI Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space ‘miniature thinking’ Isaac Asimov Proteus Bernard Picart, Aristeus Compels Proteus to Reveal his Oracles, 1731 (engraving) Abiogenesis ‘The Simpsons’ Matt Groening ‘The Genesis Tub’, Dan Greaney Theodore Sturgeon The Microcosmic God Vilhelm Pedersen. Tommelise, 1849 Claude Mellan, The Veil of St Veronica, 1649 sentient buildings Anthony Vidler Stephen King's The Shining Michael Crichton's Prey nanorobots Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Gulliver discovers Laputa, the city on the flying island, 1838 Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels (1726) |
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