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Friday, March 21, 2008

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe

Take a look at the book "The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic : How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Culture" by Charles Jencks.

The book presents the basic ideas of the Sciences of Complexity and shows many buildings based on this new language by leading architects (such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind) along with ecological and organic designs.

More than a decade ago, the architectural ideas of Christopher Alexander (see for example, "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction") greatly influenced many practitioners of Object-Oriented Design and Programming; which, in turn (at least indirectly), led to the (Software) Design Patterns movement and the now famous book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John M. Vlissides.

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