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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this lavishly illustrated text, Patrik Schumacher, a world-leading architectural theorist and principal architect with Zaha Hadid Architects, provides a comprehensive analysis on tectonism as evolving into the new architecture for the 21st century.
Preface | 6
\nIntroduction | 8
\nArchitecture’s Task: The Designed Environment as Societal Ordering
\nSystem | 12
\n1. First Premise: Parametricism | 15
\n1.1 The Indispensible Concept of Style | 16
\n1.2 Parametricism Against Pluralism | 20
\n1.3 Parametricism and Progress | 23
\n1.4 Conceptual and Operational Definition of Parametricism | 25
\n1.5 Style War: Parametricism Versus Minimalism | 31
\n2. Second Premise: Computational Engineering | 35
\n2.1 Collaboration and Distinction Between Architecture and Engineering | 36
\n2.2 Structural Fluidity: From Typology to Topology in Structural Engineering | 39
\n3. From Engineering Inspiration to Architectural Style: Tectonism | 48
\n3.1 Making Engineering Logics Speak | 51
\n3.2 Accentuation and Suppression | 55
\n3.3 Tectonic Articulation | 60
\n4. Tectonism as Style: Expressive Utilization of Engineering Logics | 66
\n4.1 Historical Precedents | 69
\n4.2 Structural System Optimizations as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation | 73
\nCandela Revisited | 85
\nBeijing Daxing International Airport | 90
\nOne Thousand Museum | 94
\nMorpheus Hotel & Resort at City of Dreams | 98
\nInkstone House, Cultural Centre | 102
\n4.3 Environmental Engineering Logics as Drivers of
\nTectonic Articulation | 103
\nKing Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Centre
\n(KAPSARC) | 104
\nCentral Bank of Iraq | 110
\n4.4 Fabrication Methods as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation | 114
\nArum | 115
\nVaulted Willow | 117
\nZephyr | 119
\nScience Museum Benches | 119
\nThallus | 121
\nACADIA 3D Printed Chair | 122
\nNagami Chairs: Rise, Bow | 123
\nStriatus Bridge | 124
\nParametric Dinner Jacket | 129
\n4.5 From Semiological Form-to-Function Correlations
\nto a Systematic Visual-Spatial Language | 130
\n4.6 The Progression of Styles in Terms of Order and Freedom | 149
\nReferences | 156
\nImage Credits | 161
\nProject Credits | 162
\nIndex | 172<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44922,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24761","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-patrik-schumacher","8":"publisher-the-images-publishing-group","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n