Synergetics as heuristic background of modern architecture and urbanism

Abstract

The article reveals the impact of synergetics and the evolutionary synergetic picture of the world on the architectural, urban intentions of the 20th and 21st centuries. The formation of architectural discourse is consistently shown, in which the leading place is occupied by figurative symbols, signs of a systematic (consistency), evolutionary systems, symbiosis, metabolism, self-organization, self-development, nonlinearity, dissipativity, or openness of the system, i.e. its ability to share information with the environment. The latter generates the rules of shaping in architecture, corresponding new architectural ideas, in particular, the many types of nonlinear architecture, where nonlinearity is read and embodied in different ways. These are both a surreal understanding of nonlinearity which creates a seemingly random, chaotic interweaving of lines, the possibility of infinite continuation of a building, and considering nonlinearity as the opposite of linearity, smoothness, straightness. Urban trends such as metabolism and symbiosis, synthesizing the mental unity of man and naturewith the basic ideas of synergetics, a synergistic picture of the world are approved.