The Architectural Review, February 1st, 2007
VISIONS OF NATURE--THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ERNST HAECKEL
By Olaf Breidbach. Munich: Prestel. 2006. [pounds sterling]55
Ernst Haeckel is a natural historian caught between the world of art and design on the one hand and biology on the other. A straight line runs from Goethe's aesthetic morphologies to Ernst Haeckel's plates, to D'Arcy Thompson's amazing On Growth and Form, to Gyorgy Kepes' exhibitions at MIT in the '50s, to Frei Otto and modern day evo-devo. A line that constantly intertwines design and genesis, order and contingency, necessity and chance. As an adamant supporter of Darwinis...
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