Architecture 2000

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Architecture 2000 by Charles Jencks This stimulating book on the evolution of architecture in the last quarter of the twentieth century penetratingly applies methods of forecasting and prediction developed in the scientific disciplines to the area of the built environment. The author begins with a generál consideration of forecasting methods, the ideologies that accompany them and their relevance to politics, the consumer society and revolution. He goes on to distinguish between the two basic patterns of cultural change, cyclical oscillations or reversible tirne, and cumulative developments or irreversible time. This section culminates in a brilliant attack on architectural determinists for their fatalism, the author maintaining that we need not accept the undesirable consequences of past architectural decisions as inevitable but can eliminate them and project in new combinations the desirable aspects of the tendencies. The greater part of the book deals with what the author sees as... Tovább

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Architecture 2000 by Charles Jencks This stimulating book on the evolution of architecture in the last quarter of the twentieth century penetratingly applies methods of forecasting and prediction developed in the scientific disciplines to the area of the built environment. The author begins with a generál consideration of forecasting methods, the ideologies that accompany them and their relevance to politics, the consumer society and revolution. He goes on to distinguish between the two basic patterns of cultural change, cyclical oscillations or reversible tirne, and cumulative developments or irreversible time. This section culminates in a brilliant attack on architectural determinists for their fatalism, the author maintaining that we need not accept the undesirable consequences of past architectural decisions as inevitable but can eliminate them and project in new combinations the desirable aspects of the tendencies. The greater part of the book deals with what the author sees as the six major traditions in architecture since 1920, and how they are likely to develop, mergeand separate during the next forty years. The author's predictions are first schematically illustrated in his completely originál 'evolutionary tree' and then discussed in detail. The influence of biology in the 1 980s and 1 990s, for example, is predicted as producing the most significant architectural movement of the century - the Biomorphic School. The obvious influence of beliefs and Vissza