Main entry:

Jencks, Charles.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London : Academy Editions ; Lanham, MD : Distributed in the United States of America by National Book Network, 1995.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173) and index.
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.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

185490406X (paperback)
9781854904065 (paperback)

Subject:

Jencks, Charles Et l'architecture postmoderne.
Jencks, Charles 1939-2019
Jencks, Charles.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
System theory.
Computational complexity.
Systems Theory
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture et société.
Théorie des systèmes.
Complexité de calcul (Informatique)
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Komplexität
Komplexitätstheorie
Zukunft
Bouwstijlen.
Theorieën.
Wetenschap.
Arquitetura moderna.
Arquitetura pós-moderna.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116368
Call No.: ID:95-B1126
Status: Available