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Adhocism : the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jencks, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts--Psychological aspects.
- Arts.
- Improvisation in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- Expanded and updated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture to revolution.
- Contents:
- Part one by Charles Jencks. The spirit of adhocism
- The pluralist universe, or pluriverse
- Mechanical, natural and critical evolution
- Consumer democracy
- Towards an articulate environment
- The ad hoc revolution
- Part two by Nathan Silver
- Modes and resources of adhocism
- The adhocist sensibility
- Adhocism in the market and the city
- Appendix: miscellaneous adhockery.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-31254-9
- OCLC:
- 945866650
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