Contemporary Perspectives On Architectural Organicism

Author : Gary Huafan He,Skender Luarasi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000888898

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Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism by Gary Huafan He,Skender Luarasi Pdf

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,Elizabeth A. Scheurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X002626451

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The Continuous Present of Organic Architecture by Sidney K. Robinson,Elizabeth A. Scheurer Pdf

Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 142360007X

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Organic Architecture by Alan Hess Pdf

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 : Sarah Bonnemaison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 1988366208

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Resurgence of Organicism by Sarah Bonnemaison Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Emmons,Jane Lomholt,John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135765439

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The Cultural Role of Architecture by Paul Emmons,Jane Lomholt,John Shannon Hendrix Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033344006

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Organicism in Nineteenth-century Architecture by Caroline van Eck Pdf

Author : Soumyen Bandyopadhyay,Jane Lomholt,Nicholas Temple,Renée Tobe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134999644

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The Humanities in Architectural Design by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay,Jane Lomholt,Nicholas Temple,Renée Tobe Pdf

Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity. Written by leading academics in the fields of history, theory and philosophy of design, these essays draw 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. This timely and important book is not a benign reflection on humanities' role in architectural design but a direct response to the increased marginalization of humanities in a technology driven world. The prioritization of technology leaves critical questions unanswered about the relationships between information and knowledge, transcription and translation, and how emerging technologies can usefully contribute to a deeper understanding of our design culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:29574887

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Organic Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik Champion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351849302

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Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture by Erik Champion Pdf

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Jørn Utzon, Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos (Aino, Elissa and Alvar), among others. It is structured around the ideas of organic design principles that influenced them and allowed their work to evolve from one building to another. Erik Champion argues organic architecture can be viewed as a concerted attempt to thematically unify the built environment through the allegorical expression of ongoing interaction between designer, architectural brief and building-as-process. With over 140 black and white images, this book is an intriguing read for architecture students and professionals alike.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCSC:32106001437331

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An Organic Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Author : Josean Figueroa
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1484010329

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The Philosophy of Organic Architecture by Josean Figueroa Pdf

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 : Javier Senosiain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138140902

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Bio-Architecture by Javier Senosiain Pdf

Bio-Architecture studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives, and presents a great part of the knowledge that gives origin and shape to built form. Organic architecture offers a design approach arising from natural principles, bringing us back to local history, tradition, and cultural roots to give us built forms which are in harmony with nature. It also shows how architects can take advantage of the resources that contemporary technology has placed within our grasp. Bio-Architecture is a unique book that studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives and looks at what gives origin and shape to built form. The text gives an informative, inspiring overview of the drive toward organically informed design both intrinsically and aesthetically using a wide variety of international examples. Javier Senosiain is an architect and an historian. He has pursued his interest in Organic Architecture across the globe drawing parallels between Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic dome and the spider's web; between Santiago Calatrava's Cathedral of St John in NY and the roots of a tree. Where nature has inspired form, Senosiain has made a career of analyzing and applying the principles he sees in some very creative writing and architecture.

Author : Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Publisher : Dom Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3869227001

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Modernity and Durability by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Pdf

The orthodox concept of modernism, as it was passed on with little alteration from the 1920s to the post-war era, has been in a state of crisis for some time. This is especially clear to see in the fields of architecture and urban design. Meanwhile, neither postmodernism nor deconstructivism has proven to be a convincing alternative. In this book, architectural theorist, practitioner, and historian Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani sets out to define a new form of modernism - a modernism that continues to uphold its social and humane objectives while reassessing, from the ground up, its social, technical, functional, and aesthetic parameters. Our economic and ecological conditions have undergone radical changes. As such, we must also adapt our needs and desires. We must consume as little as possible and produce only what is truly necessary. At the same time, we need to preserve our autonomy and values - even as we live through the major upheavals brought on by these new requirements. Starting from these premises, the author puts forward a new design approach that pursues - and is defined by - durability. It is an approach that rejects the frivolous waste of resources and superficial proliferation of images that have become commonplace today. He thus offers an alternative to the contemporary fixation on spectacles, both hollow and dangerous, and instead calls for measured restraint and substantial simplicity.

Author : Antoine Picon,Alessandra Ponte
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568983654

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Architecture and the Sciences by Antoine Picon,Alessandra Ponte Pdf

Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years, architects have been looking again at science as a source of inspiration in the production of their designs and constructions. This volume evaluates the interconnections between the sciences and architecture from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Architecture and the Sciences shows how scientific paradigms have migrated to architecture through the appropriation of organic and mechanical models. Conversely, architecture has provided images for scientific and technological discourse. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains.Contents include: Alessandra Ponte, Desert Testing; Martin Bressani, Violet-le-Duc's Optic; Georges Teyssot, Norm and Type: Variations on a Theme; Reinhold Martin, Organicism's Other; Catherine Ingraham, Why All These Birds? Birds in the Sky, Birds in the Hand; Antoine Picon, Architecture, Science, Technology and the Virtual Realm; and Felicity Scott, Encounters with the Face of America.

Author : Duanfang Lu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1315674467

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History by Duanfang Lu Pdf

"The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History features twenty-nine chapters written by leading architectural historians that define and shape future research, practice, and education. In the past few decades, the study of architecture has increasingly become a highly diverse field. This collection charts its contested territories by offering a comprehensive and provocative knowledge report of contemporary architectural history, practice, and research. It provides an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture. Divided into three parts - Histories, Interrogations, and Innovations - this book emphasizes diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars. The diverse contributions recognize multiple spatial rationalities and incorporate cross-cultural frameworks in studying the competing claims of architectural modernity. Illustrated with over 125 black and white images, this volume offers scholars, students and practitioners an evaluation of current and emerging approaches to architecture"--