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Author Jencks, Charles

Title Adhocism : the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver ; with a new foreword by Charles Jencks, and a new afterword by Nathan Silver
Edition Expanded and updated ed
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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
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
Notes Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Arts -- Psychological aspects
Improvisation in art.
ART -- General.
DESIGN -- History & Criticism.
Arts -- Psychological aspects
Improvisation in art
Form Electronic book
Author Silver, Nathan
ISBN 9781461931836
1461931835
9780262312547
0262312549
9780262312554
0262312557