The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II: A New Agenda for Architecture

by Patrik S. Schumacher

This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication. Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally self-production; it was first adopted in biology in the 1970s to describe the essential characteristics of life as a circular self-organizing system and has since been transposed into a theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470666161
• ISBN13: 9780470666166
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 3.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.8" x 8.7"