The Architecture of the Jumping UniverseThis 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. |
Contents
POLEMICAL INTRODUCTION The Trap and the Butterfly | 7 |
SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY | 17 |
Fiasco in Berlin | 18 |
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aesthetic architects artistic basic Bauhaus beauty become Berlin billion Bruce Goff building butterfly Butterfly Effect catastrophe Charles Jencks Chris Langton Complexitists Complexity Theory continuous Corbusier cosmogenesis cosmogenic cosmos created creative critical curves cyborg deterministic developed earth ecological ecosystem edge of chaos emergent energy entropy evolution evolve feedback fold forces forms fractals Frank Gehry functional Gaia Gehry's Gropius growth idea imagination invention jumps Kipnis Koolhaas language laws Le Corbusier levels look machine metaphor Modern Modernists movement Museum nature and culture nonlinear notion order and chaos organization organizational depth paradigm Paul Davies Peter Eisenman Post-Modern pushed quantum reductivism Rem Koolhaas represent sciences of complexity self-organizing self-similarity shape Shirdel shows simplicity soliton space species spiritual strange attractor structure sudden superposition symbolism things tion tradition transformation truth ture twists undulating unfolding universe urban Vitra Walter Gropius waves whole world view