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The Autopoiesis of Architecture : a New Framework for Architecture.
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 in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiley
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Autopoiesis of Architecture; Contents; 3.2.3 Communication Structures; Preface; 0 Introduction: Architecture as Autopoietic System; 0.1 Architecture as a System of Communications; 0.2 A Unified Theory of Architecture; 0.3 Functional vs Causal Explanations; 0.4 The Quest for Comprehensiveness; 0.5 The Premises Imported from Social Systems Theory; 0.6 Architecture's Place within Society; 1 Architectural Theory; 1.1 The Unity of Architecture; 1.1.1 Architectural System-formation and Self-regulation; 1.2 The Evolution of Architecture; 1.2.1 Architectural Theory as Mechanism of Selection.
- 1.3 The Necessity of Theory1.3.1 The Function of Architectural Theory; 1.3.2 Types of Theories; 1.3.3 The Necessity to Reflect Architecture's Societal raison d'être; 1.3.4 Super-theories; 1.3.5 The Theory of Architectural Autopoiesis as Domain-specific Super-theory; 1.3.6 From Deconstruction to the Programme of Critical Theory; 2 The Historical Emergence of Architecture; 2.1 The Emergence of Architecture as Self-referential System; 2.1.1 Inside-descriptions vs Outside-descriptions; 2.1.2 Function Systems; 2.1.3 The Historical Crystallization of Architecture.
- 2.2 Foundation and Refoundation of Architecture2.2.1 Autonomization: The Origin of the Discipline in the Italian Renaissance; 2.2.2 The Refoundation of the Discipline as Modern Architecture; 2.2.3 The Exclusive Competency and Universal Scope of Modern Architecture; 2.2.4 The Liberation from Traditional Formal Constraints; 2.2.5 The Switch from Edifice to Space; 2.3 Avant-garde vs Mainstream; 2.3.1 A Prerequisite for Evolution; 2.3.2 The Autonomy of the Avant-garde; 2.3.3 Communications between Avant-garde and Mainstream; 2.3.4 The Reciprocal Dependency between Avant-garde and Mainstream.
- 2.3.5 The Time Structure of the Avant-garde Process: Cumulative vs Revolutionary Periods2.3.6 Concrete Exemplars vs Abstract Principles; 2.3.7 Revolution and Philosophy; 2.3.8 Latent Utopias vs the Utopian Ambitions of the Historical Avant-garde; 2.3.9 Retroactive Manifestos; 2.4 Architectural Research; 2.4.1 Architectural Research as Avant-garde Design Research; 2.4.2 Architecture Schools as Laboratories; 2.5 The Necessity of Demarcation; 2.5.1 The Differentiation of Art and Architecture; 2.5.2 The Differentiation of Science and Architecture.
- 2.5.3 The Differentiation of Architecture and Engineering2.5.4 The Rationality of Demarcation; 2.5.5 The Specificity of Architecture within the Design Disciplines; 3 Architecture as Autopoietic System
- Operations, Structures and Processes; 3.1 Architectural Autopoiesis within Functionally Differentiated Society; 3.1.1 Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Modern Society; 3.1.2 Third Order Observation; 3.1.3 Codes and Media; 3.1.4 The Concept of Social Autopoiesis; 3.2 The Autonomy of Architecture; 3.2.1 Openness through Closure; 3.2.2 Irritations; 3.3 The Elemental Operation of Architecture.