Main entry:

Komplexität. English.

Title & Author:

Complexity : design strategy and world view / edited by Andrea Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.

Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm

Series:

Context architecture

Notes:
"Translation from German into English"--Title page verso.
"Translation from German into English"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124).
Editorial / Andrea Gleininger and Georg Vrachliotis -- Context in architectural composition : excerpts from M.F.A. thesis, Princeton University, 1950 / Robert Venturi -- Context and complexity / Denise Scott Brown -- "The difficult whole," or the (re)discovery of complexity in architecture / Andrea Gleininger -- Popper's mosquito swarm : architecture, cybernetics, and the organizationalization of complexity / Georg Vrachliotis -- Algorithmic complexity : out of nowhere / Kostas Terzidis -- Strategies for shaping complexity in nature, society, and architecture / Klaus Mainzer -- Complexity and climate / Johann Feichter -- "Ach, Luise, lass ... das ist ein Zu Weites Feld," or : the Gordian knot of complexity / Clemens Bellut.

Summary:

"When the term "complexity" appears in architectural contexts, it is clear at once that it has more than one definition, more than one interpretation, more than one architectural conceptualization. Perhaps more than other cultural disciplines, architecture is confronted by complexity on the most diverse levels. Clearly, it is often a question of models of a further level of complexity, and hence also of conceiving a different world picture, rather than of precisely categorizing or analyzing what already exists. What is required are modes of reading complexity that - despite or precisely because of their disparities - lead inexorably to questions concerning their respective systems of reference: which context generates which concept of complexity? Which concept of complexity generates which context?"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9783764386887 (pbk.)
3764386886 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Complexity (Philosophy)
Architecture Philosophie.
Complexité (Philosophie)
architectural theory.
Architektur Komplexität Aufsatzsammlung.
Komplexität Architektur Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Gleiniger, Andrea.
Vrachliotis, Georg.
Venturi, Robert
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
Context architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258693
Call No.: BIB 189485
Status: Available