Patrik Schumacher

The book elaborates the theory of architecture's autopoiesis in eight parts, 50 sections, and 200 chapters. Each of the 50 sections poses a thesis drawing a central message from the insights articulated within the respective section. The 200 chapters gather and sort the accumulated intelligence of the discipline according to the new conceptual framework adopted, in order to catalyse and...

This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as its own distinct system of communication. Autopoeisis comes from the Greek and means literally self-production; it was first adopted in biology in the 1970s to describe the essential characteristics of life as a circular self-organising system...