Complexity
Subtitle: design strategy and world view
By: edited by Andrea Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis.
Contributors: Gleiniger, Andrea.; Vrachliotis, Georg.
Series: Context architecture
Publisher: Birkhäuser; Birkhauser; Birkhauser Architecture
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9783764386887
Subjects: Architecture -- Philosophy; Complexity (Philosophy)
Work titles: Komplexität. English.
Description: "When the term "complexity" appears in architectural contexts, it is clear at once that it has more than one definition, more than one interpretation, more than one architectural conceptualization. Perhaps more than other cultural disciplines, architecture is confronted by complexity on the most diverse levels. Clearly, it is often a question of models of a further level of complexity, and hence also of conceiving a different world picture, rather than of precisely categorizing or analyzing what already exists. What is required are modes of reading complexity that - despite or precisely because of their disparities - lead inexorably to questions concerning their respective systems of reference: which context generates which concept of complexity? Which concept of complexity generates which context?"--Jacket.
Notes: "Translation from German into English"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-124).
Table of contents: title: Editorial / Andrea Gleininger and Georg Vrachliotis; title: Context in architectural composition : excerpts from M.F.A. thesis, Princeton University, 1950 / Robert Venturi; title: Context and complexity / Denise Scott Brown; title: "The difficult whole," or the (re)discovery of complexity in architecture / Andrea Gleininger; title: Popper's mosquito swarm : architecture, cybernetics, and the organizationalization of complexity / Georg Vrachliotis; title: Algorithmic complexity : out of nowhere / Kostas Terzidis; title: Strategies for shaping complexity in nature, society, and architecture / Klaus Mainzer; title: Complexity and climate / Johann Feichter; title: "Ach, Luise, lass ... das ist ein Zu Weites Feld," or : the Gordian knot of complexity / Clemens Bellut.