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

by Charles Jencks

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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.
  • ISBN10 1854904868
  • ISBN13 9781854904867
  • Publish Date May 1997 (first published 9 May 1995)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 June 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 176
  • Language English