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Old 05-13-2018, 02:07 PM   #1669 (permalink)
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Xist — pedal-power velocipedes with built-in heat pumps. Even though a solar shade would be more likely to blow away than fall.

niky — https://duckduckgo.com/?q=biomimetic+architecture&t=palemoon&iar=images

We've had the intellectual property since Frei Otto and Buckminster Fuller's work in the 1970s. But we're all down on the plantation in our minds.

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Allow me to correct myself. According to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetic_architecture], it goes back to [even before] Antonia Gaudi:


Which reminds me of Bruno Taut:



This appears to be a modern reproduction of his beehive house, that I've only seen in low-fi black&white!

There will be a glass dome over the Alps
Author : Bruno Taut : Architect
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