Pattern (Context Architecture)

Gleiniger Andrea

ISBN 10: 3764389540 / ISBN 13: 9783764389543

Published by Birkh?user Architecture, 2009

Hochkomplexe Muster beruhen auf einfachen Regeln. Muster und Musterbildung bekommen heute als Grundlage der Systematisierung und der Beschreibung hochkomplexer Vorgange und Phanomene eine neue, zentrale Bedeutung. Welche Vorstellung von Muster muss im derzeitigen Architekturdiskurs verwendet werden?" Editor(s): Gleiniger, Andrea; Vrachliotis, Georg. Num Pages: 108 pages, 108 p. BIC Classification: AK; AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 167. . 2009. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9783764389543

Synopsis:

As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960s.

Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture.

Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture?

From the Back Cover:

With contributions by Markus Christen, Andrea Gleiniger, Christoph Hölscher, Isabel Mundry, Fabian Scheurer and Axel Kilian, and Georg Vrachliotis

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pattern (Context Architecture)
Publisher: Birkh?user Architecture
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Edition: 1st Edition