Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism : The Limits of Self-Generation (Paperback)

List of Contributors. Foreword. Introduction. Section I?Organic and Modern. 1.Cubism, the Decorative and the Contradictions of Modernism. 2.The Organic Paradox: Nature and the Machine. 3.The Social Organism: Organization of Forms and Forms of Organization in Soviet Architecture. 4.“In What Style Should We Build?” Today: Style as World-Crust. 5.Songs of Art as Experience: John Dewey’s ‘Vegetable Eye’. 6.Bruno Zevi and the Ethics of Organic Architecture. 7.Japan Re-Natured: Unending Manifesto. Section II?The De-Ontology of Systems. 8.Big Data, Smart Village: Organicism and the Rearrangement of Risk. 9.Electron flow as “Life’s” Matrix: An Implementable Materiality for Organicism via ‘Living’ Architecture. 10.Posthuman Reboot: Entropy into Art. 11.On Ephemeral Structures. 12.Modern Architecture and the Organic Pessimism of the Young Lukacs. 13.A Critique of Organicism in Current Philosophy of Biology. Index.