Entrée principale:

Jencks, Charles.

Titre et auteur:

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

Édition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

London : Academy Editions, 1997.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Previous edition: 1995.
Includes index.
Introduction: The Jumping Universe 6;Pt. 1 Simplicity and Complexity;I Fiasco in Berlin 18;II Shared Language and Cosmic Values 22;III Complexity in Architecture and Urbanism 26;IV Complexity Science: The Heart of Post-Modernism 29;V Demonizing Modernism 31;VI How Much Complexity? -- A Cosmic Axiology 34;VII The Ideal Poet 39;Pt. 2 In Which Language Shall We Build?;VIII Self-similarity (Fractals) and Strange Attractors 43;IX Nonlinearity 46;X An Architecture of Waves and Twists 49;XI Folding -- Catastrophe and Continuity 52;XII Sudden Emergence -- Phase Transitions 60;XIII Organizational Depth 64;XIV Superposition -- Can One Build-in Time? 77;XV Edge of Chaos and Purpose in the Universe 85;XVI Ecological Challenge and Species Extinction 91;XVII Green Architecture 94;XVIII Gaia -- Is She Teleological? 103;XIX High-Tech Slides to Organi-Tech 109;Pt. 3 Cosmogenic Architecture;XX The Surprising Universe and Cosmic Architecture 122;XXI Cosmogenic Architecture 138;XXII Another Aesthetic 145;XXIII The Spiritual in Architecture -- Creativity in Action Cosmogenesis in Content 150;XXIV Recapturing the Bauhaus Spirit: Yalp 154;XXV The Return to a Different Nature 159;XXVI Criteria for Architecture 167;Postscript: Architecture Becomes Land-Form 170;Notes 186;Index 190
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ISBN:

1854904868 (pbk.)
9781854904867 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture postmoderne.
Postmodern.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Komplexität
Komplexitätstheorie
Zukunft
Bouwstijlen.
Theorieën.
Wetenschap.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
System theory.
Computational complexity.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 191849
Cote: ID NA2500.J51.A6; ID:97-B2883
Statut: Disponible