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

Jencks, Charles

ISBN 10: 185490406X / ISBN 13: 9781854904065

Editore: Academy Editions, 1995

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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]. Codice articolo 14889

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Titolo: Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A ...

Casa editrice: Academy Editions

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Fine

Edizione: 1st Edition.

Tipologia articolo: Book

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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.

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Book by Jencks Charles