Jencks, Charles Primary Author Kropf, Karl Primary Author mixed material bibliography London Wiley 2006 monographic 2nd Ed. en English

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378p. In this book, over twenty additional extracts are published that present an entirely new axis for architectural thinking. Whereas much of the 20th-Century thought was dominated by the 'perceived crisis' in Modernity, 'the new paradigm' or 'complexity paradigm' has been excited by the possibilities of Emergence in the Science of Complexity and Chaos theory. The reach of complexity is expressed through the primacy of Benoit Mandelbrot's theories on geometry, with an extract from his manifesto on fractals; and furthered through an outline of Emergence by Steven Johnson. It is also handled through texts that focus on the diagram and are demonstrated in its more applied form through passages dealing with the global city and culture. Contemporary Manifestoes Architecture 720.19780470014691 Podomoro University Digital Library 720.1 Jen c 2015.06.0601 My Library 720.1 Jen c theories_and_manifestoes_of_contemporary_architecture.jpg.jpg 389 2015-06-09 14:42:33 2018-02-13 15:06:22 machine generated