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Contemporary Thoughts in Architecture - Paradigm since Postmodern This is the English version of the book written by Toshimasa Sugimoto and published in Japanese by Kajima Institute Publishing Co.Ltd., Tokyo in 1984. (c)Toshimasa Sugimoto This book was originally written for Japanese intelectuals and students in the dicipline of architecture. My theory was accepted by certain readers and even translated and published in Korea. Hoping English speaking people also understand my thoery, English version of only the sentences in chapter III is made available by myself.
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Table of contents
Preface
I. Sketch for the Paradigm Change
1.
From the paradigm “Modern”
2.
Look into a human body
3. Mechanization of space
4 Beyond Postmodern II.
Recovery of totality
1. View to glob
2. Changing idea of architecture
Vitruvianism
High technology
Architectural Aesthetics as interface
3. Reorganization of style theory
Anti-style theory of modernism
Style theory as holonism
Style as “meme” III.
Morphological Phases of System
1. Abstract geometry and architecture of death
Monument to death
Representations of eternity
System geometry of space
2. Impetus towards the representationalness
Anti-abstract geometry
Dimension of semi-representationalness
Revival of ornament
3. Organization principle of typology
Type
City as fabric
Typological design method
4. Multilayered structure of space
City within city
Architecture within architecture
Holonism of architecture
Towards complexity
Composition of landscape
Forms of dissipative structure
Revival of anima
Tendency to Baroque interior
Evolving animism
IV.
Gaia organicism
Organism model
Self-organization
Life rhythm of preservation and renewal
Chaotic order
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