The Architecture of the Jumping Universe

by Charles Jencks

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185490406X
• ISBN13: 9781854904065
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

This will be viewed as an important book in the 21st century

In the coming century, this book will be known as ground breaking. In our culture, architects do not have the ability to look forward and see changing paradigms. This book successfuly outlines an emerging design paradigm for the 20th century. Unfortnately it dwells too much in style and not enough in substance when examples are used. The issue of green architecture and ecology which i belive are the heart of architecture's relationship to complexity theory are given very short chapters. Instead, Jencks focuses on stylistic expressions of chaos from the likes of Gehry and Eisenmann. Overall though, this is a book that every young, impressionable architect should read right away!