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The Autopoiesis of Architecture
By: Patrik S. SchumachereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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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.
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| Title of eBook: The Autopoiesis of Architecture | |
| Release Date: 04-20-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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The Autopoiesis of Architecture
Chapter One
Architectural Theory
Today a systematic theory that claims to encompass the totality of an extensive field like architecture might seem somewhat anachronistic. Such a claim certainly distinguishes the theory proposed here from all other theoretical efforts that circulate within and around the discipline. Obviously such a claim presupposes that there exists a phenomenon called architecture that is sufficiently cohesive to allow for a general, systematic treatment.
The theory of architectural autopoiesis argues that it is not only possible to describe architecture as a cohesive entity from the outside, but that architecture as a system of communications has itself maintained and strengthened its cohesiveness by means of architectural theory, and can be expected to do so in the future. Architectural theory is an indispensable, inextricably involved dimension of the autopoiesis of architecture. Theory is an essential ingredient of all architecture. The architecture we practise — at the level that we practise it today — was only reached with the aid of theory. This does not imply that all architects must be architectural theoreticians. Most might never have read any theoretical book, and only a few write theory. But all have to argue and explain themselves in presentations and in explanatory texts that must accompany competition entries or the publication of their works. The theoretician's theory succeeds when its guiding premises, conclusions and turns of argument diffuse into the ongoing autopoiesis of architecture.
1.1 The Unity of Architecture
THESIS 2 There exists a single, unified syste
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