Adhocism, Expanded and Updated Edition: The Case for Improvisation

by Nathan Silver and Charles Jencks

Book Overview

The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture to revolution.

When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define a new architecture and design era--a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines and formal models of modernism. Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver's book was a manifesto for a generation that took...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518449
• ISBN13: 9780262518444
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher