Research Catalog

Title

The architecture of the jumping universe : a polemic : how complexity science is changing architecture and culture / Charles Jencks.

Author

Jencks, Charles.

Publication

London : Academy Eds. ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

176 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subjects

• Computational complexity
• Architecture
• Architecture and society
• System theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-173) and index.

Contents

• Polemical Introduction: The Trap and the Butterfly -- I. Fiasco in Berlin -- II. Shared Language and Cosmic Values -- III. Complexity in Architecture and Urbanism -- IV. Complexity Science: The Heart of Post-Modernism -- V. Demonizing Modernism -- VI. How Much Complexity? - A Cosmic Axiology -- VII. The Ideal Poet -- VIII. Self-similarity (Fractals) and Strange Attractors -- IX. Nonlinearity -- X. An Architecture of Waves and Twists -- XI. Folding - Catastrophe and Continuity -- XII. Sudden Emergence - Phase Transitions -- XIII. Organizational Depth -- XIV. Superposition - Can One Build-in Time? -- XV. Edge of Chaos and Purpose in the Universe -- XVI. Ecological Challenge and Species Extinction -- XVII. Green Architecture -- XVIII. Gaia - Is She Teleological? -- XIX. High-Tech Slides to Organi-Tech -- XX. The Surprising Universe and Cosmic Architecture -- XXI. Cosmogenic Architecture -- XXII. Another Aesthetic -- XXIII. The Spiritual in Architecture: Creativity in Action Cosmogenesis in Content.
• XXIV. Recapturing the Bauhaus Spirit: Yalp -- XXV. The Return to a Different Nature -- XXVI. Criteria for Architecture.

ISBN

185490406X

OCLC

ocm32777776

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries