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Josep Lluís Mateo and ETH Zurich publish Architectural Papers III: Natural Metaphor

Architectural Papers III. Natural Metaphor. An Anthology of Essays on Architecture and Nature. Ed. Cátedra de Josep Lluís Mateo, ETH Zurich. Switzerland 2007.
ISBN 978-84-96954-08-3.

Josep Lluís Mateo has put together a compilation of the reflections and images of various cross-disciplinary authors from different countries in Europe, Asia and America, that explore the use of nature’s forms, scales and concepts to stimulate the design process. In this global age, with the emergence of new forms of spatial relations that remotely connect people and activities, architecture becomes an essential bridge between spaces and flows, between the global and the local.

“From an operative point of view, which is what concerns us, the project is a synthetic operation that draws together and gives form and consistency to a multitude of very real yet largely ethereal constraints. Given this context, we should use nature as a metaphor. ”
(Introduction to APIII, by Josep Lluís Mateo)