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The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119990491
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I written by Patrik Schumacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Author Patrik Schumacher offers innovative treatment that enriches architectural theory with a coordinated arsenal of concepts facilitating both detailed analysis and insightful comparisons with other domains, such as art, science and politics. He explores how the various modes of communication comprising architecture depend upon each other, combine, and form a unique subsystem of society that co-evolves with other important autopoietic subsystems like art, science, politics and the economy. The first of two volumes that together present a comprehensive account of architecture's autopoiesis, this book elaborates the theory of architecture?s autopoeisis in 8 parts, 50 sections and 200 chapters. Each of the 50 sections poses a thesis drawing a central message from the insights articulated within the respective section. The 200 chapters are gathering and sorting the accumulated intelligence of the discipline according to the new conceptual framework adopted, in order to catalyze and elaborate the new formulations and insights that are then encapsulated in the theses. However, while the theoretical work in the text of the chapters relies on the rigorous build up of a new theoretical language, the theses are written in ordinary language ? with the theoretical concepts placed in brackets. The full list of the 50 theses affords a convenient summary printed as appendix at the end of the book. The second volume completes the analysis of the discourse and further proposes a new agenda for contemporary architecture in response to the challenges and opportunities that confront architectural design within the context of current societal and technological developments.

Digital Hadid

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764301729
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Digital Hadid written by Patrik Schumacher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in her very early work, Zaha Hadid made innovative use of graphic techniques such as penetration, distortion, curvature, strongly reduced perspectives, to portray her architectural designs from a refreshing new angle. In this way her unmistakeable concepts of architectural space originated, and it is no surprise that the London architect makes full use of the full range of possibilities afforded by today's electronic design tools to create her inimitable forms. This present publication documents the most important of her recent projects, revealing how Zaha Hadid has risen to the digital challenge. Patrik Schumacher teaches at the Architectural Association in London.

The Autopoiesis of Architecture

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Autopoiesis of Architecture written by Patrik Schumacher and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eco-generative Design for Early Stages of Architecture

Author : Xavier Marsault
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119482585
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Eco-generative Design for Early Stages of Architecture written by Xavier Marsault and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can be first considered as a complete synthesis of the EcCoGen ANR project (2011-2012), involving researchers from different French labs (including MAP) and domains, breaking major difficulties of the real-time generative design in the early stages of a pre-architectural project. Then the scope becomes larger, and the authors introduce major prospects following recent advances on natural and artificial evolution.

Tectonism

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864708967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Tectonism written by Patrik Schumacher and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A leader in the discourse on the latest architectural movements, Schumacher comments on parametricism and computational engineering leading to a malleable network of interdependencies that evolved into tectonism as an architectural style- A comprehensively illustrated text with full-color photography and detailed plans, knitted together with incisive and critical analysis and appraisal of architectural history and precedents- A must-have text that shines a light on a progressive architectural culture and the most innovative methodologiesTectonism is the most advanced and most sophisticated contemporary architectural style. There are, to date, only relatively a few fully satisfactory built examples, and most of them are still of a relatively modest scale. It is the thesis of this book that tectonism, as defined and illustrated here, represents the future of 21st century architecture. This thesis is optimistic with respect to the long-term rationality of the discipline of architecture, i.e. with respect to its capacity to discern and ascertain, via its internal discourse, the superiority of tectonism, and to spread its influence and impact as global best practice accordingly. This optimism also extends to the rationality of the wider society, as represented through private clients, public clients, and through end-user acceptance, to be susceptible to the guidance it will receive from its architectural expert discourse. This optimism is based on a critical analysis and appraisal of architectural history. The avant-garde intuitions of the early modernists in the 1920s, backed up by sound theoretical arguments, did win over the discipline in the 1930s and 1940s, and spread its real impact on the global built environment throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The current avant-garde intuitions within the movement of tectonism, although very different from modernism, are equally well thought through as the arguments in this book will attempt to demonstrate. -- From the Introduction, by Patrik Schumacher

Parametricism 2.0

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118736168
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Parametricism 2.0 written by Patrik Schumacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parametricism is an avant-garde architecture and design movement that has been growing and maturing over the last 15 years, emerging as a remarkable global force. The tendency started in architecture but now encompasses all design disciplines, from urban design to fashion. In architecture, the style has an international following and is currently progressing beyond its experimental roots to make an impact on a broader scale, with practices like Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) winning and completing large-scale architectural projects worldwide. Parametricism implies that all elements and aspects of an architectural composition or product are parametrically malleable; and the style owes its original, unmistakable physiognomy to its unprecedented use of computational design tools and fabrication methods. All design parameters are conceived as variables that allow the design to vary and adapt to the diverse, complex and dynamic requirements of contemporary society. Although Parametricism has been talked about and hotly debated for a number of years, so far there has been no publication dedicated to Parametricism. The issue is guest-edited by Patrik Schumacher, partner at ZHA, and one of the world's most highly renowned advocates of Parametricism. Contributors: Philippe Block, Shajay Bhooshan, Mark Burry, Mario Carpo, Manuel DeLanda, John Frazer, Mark Foster Gage, Enriqueta Llabres and Eduardo Rico, Achim Menges, Theo Spyropoulos, Robert Stuart-Smith, Philip F Yuan. Featured architects and designers: Arup, Mark Fornes/THEVERYMANY, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Ross Lovegrove.

Autopoiesis and Cognition

Author : H.R. Maturana
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400989474
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Autopoiesis and Cognition written by H.R. Maturana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bold, brilliant, provocative and puzzling work. It demands a radical shift in standpoint, an almost paradoxical posture in which living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana, with his colleague Francisco Varela, have undertaken the construction of a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define living systems not as they are objects of observation and description, nor even as in teracting systems, but as self-contained unities whose only reference is to them selves. Thus, the standpoint of description of such unities from the 'outside', i. e. , by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms. Yet, on the basis of such a conceptual method, and such a theory of living systems, Maturana goes on to define cognition as a biological phenomenon; as, in effect, the very nature of all living systems. And on this basis, to generate the very domains of interac tion among such systems which constitute language, description and thinking.

Autopoietic Law - A New Approach to Law and Society

Author : Gunther Teubner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110876450
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Autopoietic Law - A New Approach to Law and Society written by Gunther Teubner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architect's Brain

Author : Harry Francis Mallgrave
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118078675
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Architect's Brain written by Harry Francis Mallgrave and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory. Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory Looks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade Demonstrates the neurological justification for some very timeless architectural ideas, from the multisensory nature of the architectural experience to the essential relationship of ambiguity and metaphor to creative thinking

The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II

Author : Patrik Schumacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119940478
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II written by Patrik Schumacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication. Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally self-production; it was first adopted in biology in the 1970s to describe the essential characteristics of life as a circular self-organizing system and has since been transposed into a theory of social systems. This new approach offers architecture an arsenal of general comparative concepts. It allows architecture to be understood as a distinct discipline, which can be analyzed in elaborate detail while at the same time offering insightful comparisons with other subject areas, such as art, science and political discourse. On the basis of such comparisons the book insists on the necessity of disciplinary autonomy and argues for a sharp demarcation of design from both art and engineering. Schumacher accordingly argues controversially that design as a discipline has its own sui generis intelligence – with its own internal logic, reach and limitations. Whereas the first volume provides the theoretical groundwork for Schumacher’s ideas – focusing on architecture as an autopoeitic system, with its own theory, history, medium and its unique societal function – the second volume addresses the specific, contemporary challenges and tasks that architecture faces. It formulates these tasks, looking specifically at how architecture is seeking to organize and articulate the complexity of post-fordist network society. The volume explicitly addresses how current architecture can upgrade its design methodology in the face of an increasingly demanding task environment, characterized by both complexity and novelty. Architecture’s specific role within contemporary society is explained and its relationship to politics is clarified. Finally, the new, global style of Parametricism is introduced and theoretically grounded.

Josep Maria Jujol

Author : Dennis Dollens
Publisher : Lumen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Josep Maria Jujol written by Dennis Dollens and published by Lumen Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949) created some of Spain's greatest modern buildings in a style known as modernisme (the Barcelona equivalent of art nouveau). In one decade, between 1913 and 1923, the young architect built five works that entitle him to be classified as a pioneer of Modernism; yet Jujol, a collaborator with Antoni Gaudi on some of that master's most admired works, has been largely unrecognized and his independent architecture unknown. Josep Maria Jujol: Five Major Buildings places the architect's work in the highly charged religious and political context of Barcelona - from the late 19th century through the Spanish Civil War and on to the time of Jujol's death in 1949. This book considers Jujol's career as parallel to, but not part of, the nascent avant-garde emerging from Barcelona's cafe Els Quatre Gats and the Galleries Dalmau, with which Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Sert, and Miro were at one time associated. Josep Maria Jujol: Five Major Buildings traces the architect's development in this and Gaudi's conservative religious environment, as well as in a broader European frame. It also considers Jujol's use of symbolic, abstract calligraphy, collage, and painting as advanced semiotic elements in an extraordinary amalgamation of craft, material, technique and space fused into visionary architecture.

Critical Environments

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630196
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Critical Environments written by Cary Wolfe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas Luhmann, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, and others, and ranges across fields from feminist philosophy of science to the theory of ideology. Offering American readers a comprehensive introduction to systems theory and responding to the widespread charge of relativism leveled against it, Wolfe's work will enhance and inspire new kinds of critical thought.

Architecture Without Architects: a Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture

Author : Bernard RUDOFSKY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Without Architects: a Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture written by Bernard RUDOFSKY and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ornament

Author : Antoine Picon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111858824X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Ornament written by Antoine Picon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacularreturn in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the worksof well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, SauerbruchHutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubtthat these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable frominnovations in computer technology. The proliferation ofdevelopments in design software has enabled architects toexperiment afresh with texture, colour, pattern and topology. Though inextricably linked with digital tools and culture, AntoinePicon argues that some significant traits in ornament persist fromearlier Western architectural traditions. These he defines as the‘subjective’ – the human interaction thatornament requires in both its production and its reception –and the political. Contrary to the message conveyed by the foundingfathers of modern architecture, traditional ornament was not meantonly for pleasure. It conveyed vital information about thedesignation of buildings as well as about the rank of their owners.As such, it participated in the expression of social values,hierarchies and order. By bringing previous traditions in ornamentunder scrutiny, Picon makes us question the political issues atstake in today’s ornamental revival. What does it tell usabout present-day culture? Why are we presently so fearful ofmeaning in architecture? Could it be that by steering so vehementlyaway from symbolism, contemporary architecture is evading anyexplicit contribution to collective values?

Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde

Author :
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111950712X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ‘architectural Big Bang’, such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse, the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency. It was divergent geographically – reaching from Europe to North America and Japan – and in its political, formal and cultural preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and experimental force, critiquing contemporary society against the backdrop of extreme social and political upheaval: the Paris riots of May 1968, the anti-Vietnam war movement in America and the looming ecological crisis. Re-imagining the Avant-garde outlines how in contemporary architectural practice, avant-garde projects retain their power as historical precedents, as barometers of a particular design ethos, as critiques of society and instigators of new formal techniques. Given the far-reaching impact of the subsequent digital revolution, which has since reshaped every aspect of practice, the issue asks why this historical period continues to retain its undeniable grip on current architecture. Contributors: Pablo Bronstein and Sam Jacob, Sarah Deyong, Stylianos Giamarelos, Damjan Jovanovic, Andrew Kovacs, Perry Kulper, Igor Marjanovic, William Menking, Michael Sorkin, Neil Spiller and Mimi Zeiger. Featured architects: Archizoom, Andrea Branzi, Jimenez Lai, Luis Miguel (Koldo) Lus Arana (Klaus), NEMESTUDIO, Superstudio and UrbanLab.

The Idea of Design

Author : Victor Margolin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631662
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Design written by Victor Margolin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays addressing the nature and practice of contemporary product and graphic design, selected from volumes four through nine of the international journal Design Issues. Themes include reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. Includes b & w photos and illustrations. c. Book News Inc.

New Modes

Author : Chris Bryant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119328144
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book New Modes written by Chris Bryant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New modes of practice are now emerging in architecture. Rural Studio, Exyzt, Muf, Assemble and many more have led the way by challenging conventional ideas of ‘The Architect' and reclaiming the notion of architecture as something public that should work ultimately towards the collective good. This quiet revolution is born out of a crisis in the profession and a wider vacuum in the political, environmental and economic situation. On the one hand, architecture as a profession has seen its influence diminish rapidly over the last 50 years through privatisation and the dominance of finance, while on the other hand it has also lacked collective courage and readiness to evolve. Without necessarily being aware of each other, studios around the world are now redefining the profession of architecture as something more proactive, self-aware and political. They are broadening their skill sets and becoming deeply involved in their projects, initiating them themselves, financing them and running them. Though much of this work is dealing with local issues at a relatively small scale, it is inherently ambitious with global application. Contributors include: Shumi Bose, Indy Johar, Alison Killing, Douglas Murphy, and Finn Williams Featured architects: Aterlier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), adamo-faiden; Baupiloten, Grupo Toma, Hector, Inteligencias Colectivas, raumlaborberlin, studioBASAR, Studio GutGut, Taller Ken, and We Made That.