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ISBN 10: 0470666153
ISBN 13: 9780470666159
Author: Patrik 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 of social systems. This new approach offers architecture an arsenal of general comparative concepts. It allows architecture to be understood as a distinct discipline, which can be analyzed in elaborate detail while at the same time offering insightful comparisons with other subject areas, such as art, science and political discourse. On the basis of such comparisons the book insists on the necessity of disciplinary autonomy and argues for a sharp demarcation of design from both art and engineering. Schumacher accordingly argues controversially that design as a discipline has its own sui generis intelligence – with its own internal logic, reach and limitations.
Whereas the first volume provides the theoretical groundwork for Schumacher’s ideas – focusing on architecture as an autopoeitic system, with its own theory, history, medium and its unique societal function – the second volume addresses the specific, contemporary challenges and tasks that architecture faces. It formulates these tasks, looking specifically at how architecture is seeking to organize and articulate the complexity of post-fordist network society. The volume explicitly addresses how current architecture can upgrade its design methodology in the face of an increasingly demanding task environment, characterized by both complexity and novelty. Architecture’s specific role within contemporary society is explained and its relationship to politics is clarified. Finally, the new, global style of Parametricism is introduced and theoretically grounded.
Table of contents:
Introduction to Volume 2
6. The Task of Architecture
6.1 Functions
6.1.1 Functions versus Capacities
6.1.2 Substantial versus Subsidiary Functions
6.1.3 Tectonics
6.1.4 The Categorization of Function-types
6.1.5 Problem-types (Function-types) vs Solution-types (Archetypes)
6.1.6 Patterns of Decomposition/Composition
6.1.7 Functional Reasoning via Action-artefact Networks
6.1.8 Limitations of Functional Expertise
6.2 Order via Organization and Articulation
6.2.1 Organization and Articulation: Historical and Systematic
6.2.2 Architectural Order
6.2.3 A Definition of Organization for Contemporary Architecture
6.2.4 Complicated, Complex, Organized, Ordered
6.3 Organization
6.3.1 Relating Spatial to Social Organization
6.3.2 Territorialization and Integration
6.3.3 Systems, Configurations, Organizations
6.4 Supplementing Architecture with a Science of Configuration
6.4.1 Set Theory
6.4.2 Harnessing Network Theory
6.4.3 Excursion: Network Theory
6.4.4 A City is not a Tree
6.4.5 Space Syntax: Concepts and Tools of Analysis
6.4.6 Space Syntax: Theoretical Claims
6.4.7 From Organization to Articulation: Taking Account of Cognition
6.5 Articulation
6.5.1 Articulation vs Organization
6.5.2 The Problem of Orientation and the Problematic of Legibility
6.5.3 Articulate vs Inarticulate Organization
6.5.4 Articulation as the Core Competency of Architecture
6.5.5 Generalizing the Concept of Function
6.6 The Phenomenological vs the Semiological Dimension of Architecture
6.7 The Phenomenological Dimension of Architectural Articulation
6.7.1 The Perceptual Constitution of Objects and Spaces
6.7.2 Cognitive Principles of Gestalt-Perception
6.7.3 Parametric Figuration
6.8 The Semiological Dimension of Architectural Articulation
6.8.1 The Built Works of Architecture as Framing Communications
6.8.2 Analogy: Language and Built Environment as Media of Communication
6.8.3 Signs as Communications
6.8.4 Territory as Fundamental Semiological Unit
6.8.5 Saussure’s Insight: Language as System of Correlated Differences
6.8.6 Extra-Semiological Demands on Architecture’s Medial Substrate
6.8.7 Syntagmatic vs Paradigmatic Relations
6.9 Prolegomenon to Architecture’s Semiological Project
6.9.1 The Scope of Architecture’s Signified
6.9.2 The Composite Character of the Architectural Sign
6.9.3 Absolute and Relative Arbitrariness
6.9.4 Natural and Artificial Semiosis
6.9.5 Designing Architecture’s Semiological Project
6.9.6 Cognitive and Attentional Conditions of Architectural Communication
6.9.7 Speculation: Expanding the Expressive Power of Architectural Sign Systems
6.10 The Semiological Project and the General Project of Architectural Order
6.10.1 The Semiological Project in Relation to the Organizational and the Phenomenological Project
6.10.2 Relationship between Architectural Languages and Architectural Styles
6.10.3 The Requisite Variety of Architectural Articulation
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The Design Process
7.1 Contemporary Context and Aim of Design Process Theory
7.2 Towards a Contemporary Design Process Reflection and Design Methodology
7.2.1 Method vs Process
7.3 The Design Process as Problem-solving Process
7.3.1 The Design Process as Information-processing Process
7.3.2 The Structure of Information-processing Systems
7.3.3 Programmes
7.3.4 The Task Environment and its Representation as Problem Space
7.3.5 Problem Solving as Search in a State Space
7.3.6 Planning Spaces
7.3.7 Heuristic versus Exhaustive Problem-solving Methods
7.4 Differentiating Classical, Modern and Contemporary Processes
7.5 Problem Definition and Problem Structure
7.5.1 Wicked Problems
7.5.2 The Structure of Ill-structured Problems
7.5.3 An Information-processing Model for Information-rich Design Processes
7.6 Rationality: Retrospective and Prospective
7.6.1 Rational in Retrospect: Observing Innovative Design Practice
7.6.2 Prospective Rationality
7.6.3 Processing the Three Task Dimensions of Architecture
7.7 Modelling Spaces -
Architecture and Society
8.1 World Architecture within World Society
8.2 Autonomy vs Authority
8.3 Architecture’s Conception of Society
8.3.1 The Crisis of Modernism’s Conception of Society
8.3.2 Social Systems Theory and the Theory of Architectural Autopoiesis
8.4 Architecture in Relation to other Societal Subsystems
8.4.1 Architecture In Relation to the Economic System
8.4.2 The Economy and the Design-Principle of Economy of Means
8.4.3 Economic Conditions of Architectural Discourse
8.4.4 Architecture and Education
8.5 Architecture as Profession and Professional Career
8.5.1 Authorship, Reputation, Oeuvre
8.5.2 Centre-periphery Differentiation within Architecture
8.5.3 The Absorption of Uncertainty
8.5.4 The Architectural Design Studio as Organization
8.6 The Built Environment as Primordial Condition of Society
8.6.1 The Built Environment As Indispensable Substrate of Social Evolution
8.6.2 From Spatial Order to Conceptual Order
8.6.3 Beauty and the Evolution of Concepts of Order -
Architecture and Politics
9.1 Is Political Architecture Possible?
9.1.1 Political Vacuum
9.1.2 Normal vs Revolutionary Politics
9.2 Theorizing the Relationship between Architecture and Politics
9.2.1 The Incommensurability of Architecture and Politics
9.2.2 Architecture Responds to Political Agendas – Three Scenarios
9.2.3 Service Provisions Between Architecture and Politics
9.3 Architecture Adapts to Political Development
9.3.1 Modern Architecture Calls on Politics
9.3.2 The ABC Group: Political Agitation Within Architecture
9.3.3 The Vicissitudes of Political Polarization
9.4 The Limitations of Critical Practice in Architecture
9.4.1 General Political Critique and Macro-political Ambitions
9.4.2 Architecture’s ‘Micro-Political’ Agency: Manipulating Non-political Power
9.4.3 Who Controls the Power-distributing Capacity of Design?
9.4.4 Public Competitions As Structural Coupling between Architecture and Politics -
The Self-descriptions of Architecture
10.1 Theoretical Underpinnings
10.1.1 Reference as Self-reference
10.1.2 Levels of Self-reference
10.2 The Necessity of Reflection: Architectural Theory as Reflection Theory
10.2.1 Continuity vs Consistency
10.2.2 Categorical vs Variable Structures of Communication
10.3 Classic Treatises
10.3.1 Alberti’s De re aedificatoria
10.3.2 Durand’s Précis des lecçns d’architecture
10.3.3 Le Corbusier’s Vers une architecture
10.3.4 The Autopoiesis of Architecture
10.4 Architectural Historiography
10.4.1 History of Architecture’s Autonomization and Internal Structuration
10.4.2 History of Architectural Styles as Responses to Epochal Shifts in the Societal Environment
10.5 Architectural Criticism -
Parametricism – The Parametric Paradigm and the Formation of a New Style
11.1 Parametricism as Epochal Style
11.1.1 Historiographical Sketch: The Epochal Alignment of Styles
11.1.2 A Unified Style for the 21st Century
11.1.3 The Maturity of Parametricism
11.1.4 Polarized Confrontation: Parametricism versus Minimalism
11.1.5 Styles as Design Research Programmes
11.2 The Parametricist Research Programme
11.2.1 Conceptual Definition of Parametricism
11.2.2 Operational Definition of Parametricism: The Defining Heuristics of Parametricism
11.2.3 Genealogy of the Parametricist Heuristics
11.2.4 Analogies: Emulating Natural Systems
11.2.5 Agendas Advancing Parametricism
11.2.6 The Agenda of Ecological Sustainability
11.3 Parametricist vs Modernist Urbanism
11.3.1 Simple Order, Disorder, Complex Order
11.3.2 Implementing Parametricist Urbanism
11.4 Elegance -
Epilogue – The Design of a Theory
12.1 Theoretical Foundation: Communication Theory vs Historical Materialism?
12.2 The Theory of Architectural Autopoiesis as Unified Theory of Architecture
12.3 Notes on the Architecture of the Theory
12.4 The Theory as the Result of Contingent Theory Design Decisions
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