Architecture of the Jumping Universe A Polemic - How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Culture

Name: Architecture of the Jumping Universe A Polemic - How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Culture
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ISBN: 9781854904867

ISBN-10: 1854904868

ISBN-13: 9781854904867

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Charles Jencks

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This book presents the basic ideas of the Sciences of Complexity and shows many examples of architecture based on this new language. Jencks' own recent work is used to illustrate concepts in physics and an architecture based on waves and twists.

Book details

List price: $26.64
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.75" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks is the author of, among many other titles, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (Doubleday 50M copies sold to date)., The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe.



Introduction: The Jumping Universe



Simplicity and Complexity



Fiasco in Berlin



Shared Language and Cosmic Values



Complexity in Architecture and Urbanism



Complexity Science: The Heart of Post-Modernism



Demonizing Modernism



How Much Complexity? -- A Cosmic Axiology



The Ideal Poet



In Which Language Shall We Build?



Self-similarity (Fractals) and Strange Attractors



Nonlinearity



An Architecture of Waves and Twists



Folding -- Catastrophe and Continuity



Sudden Emergence -- Phase Transitions



Organizational Depth



Superposition -- Can One Build-in Time?



Edge of Chaos and Purpose in the Universe



Ecological Challenge and Species Extinction



Green Architecture



Gaia -- Is She Teleological?



High-Tech Slides to Organi-Tech



Cosmogenic Architecture



The Surprising Universe and Cosmic Architecture



Cosmogenic Architecture



Another Aesthetic



The Spiritual in Architecture: Creativity in Action Cosmogenesis in Content



Recapturing the Bauhaus Spirit: Yalp



The Return to a Different Nature



Criteria for Architecture


Postscript: Architecture Becomes Land-Form


Notes


Index