The architecture of the jumping universe : a polemic : how complexity science is changing architecture and culture / Charles Jencks.
By: Jencks, Charles [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Academy Editions, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 176 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 185490406X (paperback).Subject(s): Architecture | Architecture and society | Architecture -- Aesthetics | Architecture, PostmodernDDC classification: 724.9
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 724.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00231774 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This text discusses the basic ideas of complexity and chaos theories and presents many examples of architecture based on these ideas in the work of leading architects - Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Charles Correa and Itsuko Hasegawa - along with ecological and organic designs. Charles Jenck's own recent work is used to illustrate concepts in physics and an architecture based on waves and twists. This work both advocates and criticizes as it seeks to define a new direction for the contemporary arts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.(Bowker Author Biography)