Summary: Martin Kemp, 2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford, presents Processes and Structures: The Art and Science of Nature in Nature. Creative artists, architects, engineers, designers and scientists have all looked at nature with intuitions about underlying patterns of organization. Drawing on the column that he has been writing in the journal Nature for five years, Martin Kemp presents an overview of how artists and scientists have, knowingly and inadvertently, shared intuitions about natural design. A range of artists in various media feature. Architects and engineers include Antoni Gaudi, Buckminster Fuller, Cecil Balmond, and Toyo Ito. Martin Kemp was trained in natural sciences and art history. He was a Wolfson Research Professor at the British Academy (1993-98) and is currently Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many publications. He writes a regular column in Nature, now published in book form as Visualizations: The 'Nature' Book of Science and Art. He was co-curator of a major exhibition, Spectacular Bodies: the Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, at the Hayward Gallery London (2000-01). The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, distinguished scholars of international repute are appointed Mellon Senior Fellows and join the Visiting Scholars in residence at the CCA Study Centre for extended periods each year. For a transcript of this lecture visit www.cca.qc.ca/mellonlectures Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 13 April 2004
