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

Jencks, Charles

ISBN 10: 185490406X / ISBN 13: 9781854904065

Verlag: Academy Editions, 1995

Beschreibung

Minimal wear, almost new. Illustrated, gatefold wraps, index, 176 pages. 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. .47 Centimeters X 7.48 Centimeters X 9.84 Centimeters].

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 14889

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic - How Complexity Science is Changing Architecture and Culture
• Verlag: Academy Editions
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 185490406X
• ISBN-13: 9781854904065
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Fine
• Buchtyp: Book
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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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.