architecture for the 21st century Schumacher, Patrik creator author. text bibliography vra 2023 2023 monographic eng

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175 p. : ill. ; col. ; 24 cm. Tectonism is the most advanced and most sophisticated contemporary architectural style. There are, to date, only relatively a few fully satisfactory built examples, and most of them are still of a relatively modest scale. It is the thesis of this book that tectonism, as defined and illustrated here, represents the future of 21st century architecture. This thesis is optimistic with respect to the long-term rationality of the discipline of architecture, i.e. with respect to its capacity to discern and ascertain, via its internal discourse, the superiority of tectonism, and to spread its influence and impact as global best practice accordingly. This optimism also extends to the rationality of the wider society, as represented through private clients, public clients, and through end-user acceptance, to be susceptible to the guidance it will receive from its architectural expert discourse. This optimism is based on a critical analysis and appraisal of architectural history. The avant-garde intuitions of the early modernists in the 1920s, backed up by sound theoretical arguments, did win over the discipline in the 1930s and 1940s, and spread its real impact on the global built environment throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The current avant-garde intuitions within the movement of tectonism, although very different from modernism, are equally well thought through as the arguments in this book will attempt to demonstrate. - From the Introduction, by Patrik Schumacher Preface 6 -- Introduction 8 -- Architecture's Task: The Designed Environment as Societal Ordering System 12 -- 1. First Premise: Parametricism 15 -- 1.1 The Indispensible Concept of Style 16 -- 1.2 Parametricism Against Pluralism 20 -- 1.3 Parametricism and Progress 23 -- 1.4 Conceptual and Operational Definition of Parametricism 25 -- 1.5 Style War: Parametricism Versus Minimalism 31 -- 2. Second Premise: Computational Engineering 35 -- 2.1 Collaboration and Distinction Between Architecture and Engineering 36 -- 2.2 Structural Fluidity: From Typology to Topology in Structural Engineering 39 -- 3. From Engineering Inspiration to Architectural Style: Tectonism 48 -- 3.1 - Making Engineering Logics Speak 51 -- 3.2 Accentuation and Suppression 55 -- 3.3. Tectonic Articulation 60 -- 4. Tectonism as Style: Expressive Utilization of Engineering Logics 66 -- 4.1 Historical Precedents 69 -- 4.2 Structural System Optimizations as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation 73 -- Candela Revisited 85 -- Beijing Daxing International Airport 90 -- One Thousand Museum 94 -- Morpheus Hotel & Resort at City of Dreams 98 -- Inkstone House, Cultural Centre 102 -- 4.3 Environmental Engineering Logics as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation 103 -- King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Centre (KAPSARC) 104 -- Central Bank of Iraq 110 -- 4.4 Fabrication Methods as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation 114 -- Arum 115 -- Vaulted Willow 117 -- Zephyr 119 -- Science Museum Benches 119 -- Thallus 121 -- ACADIA 3D Printed Chair 122 -- Nagami Chairs: Rise, Bow 123 -- Striatus Bridge 124 -- Parametric Dinner Jacket 129 -- 4.5 From Semiological Form-to-Function Correlations to a Systematic Visual-Spatial Language 130 -- 4.6 The Progression of Styles in Terms of Order and Freedom 149 -- References 156 -- Image Credits 161 -- Project Credits 162 -- Index 172 -- Patrik Schumacher. Architecture, Modern 21st century Philosophy NA687 S38 2023 9781864708967 1864708964 pucpr 210420 20250304115520.0 eng