Author: Gary Huafan He
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000888932
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.
Author: Gary Huafan He
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000888894
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.
Author: Sidney K. Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Author: Alan Hess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423600077
Category : Architect-designed houses
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Offers advice on working with an architect to rebuild or remodel your home. This book features prominent architects, their philosophies, and sidebars including planning checklists and a directory of architects. It guides on the essential criteria, explains what the benefits of working with an architect, and shows how it adds value to a project.
Author: Josean Figueroa
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484010327
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Exploring the philosophical roots of Organic Architecture, this book is divided into three parts: The first, British Romantic Naturalism, explores the cultural movements in Europe and Britain which led to Wrightean Architecture; The second, Summa Emersoniana, is a summary of the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wright's philosophical master; the third, Wright's Architectural Concepts, is a categorization of the ideas defining Wright's vision of Organic Architecture.
Author: Paul Emmons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135765367
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations of cultural identities. Chapters written by international academics in history, theory and philosophy of architecture, examine how different modes of representation throughout history have drawn profound meanings from cultural practices and beliefs. These are as diverse as the designs they inspire and include religious, mythic, poetic, political, and philosophical references.
Author: Caroline van Eck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Sarah Bonnemaison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988366203
Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The close connection between living nature and architecture is one of the most persistent and enduring themes of architectural theory. In the West it has come to be called organicism. For the creator, organicism can be seen as strategies of both invention and interpretation that draw from nature. This original publication makes explicit design methods that are drawn from living nature, and draws links between buildings across centuries and countries. Each essay interprets a unique aspect of organicism and puts it in its proper theoretical context. As a whole, the catalogue reveals the enduring strength of organicism in architectural education, research, and practice. Published in collaboration with Dalhousie Architectural Press to accompany an exhibition held at OCAD University, Toronto, for the Living Architecture Systems Group symposium, Spring 2019.
