In search of fractal architecture’s principles

Piotr Furmanek

doi:10.5277/arc130106

Abstract

In 2002 Charles Jencks, a famous American architect, historian and architecture critic added two new chapters to one of his most important works The Language of Post-Modern Architecture: “The New Paradigm I – Complexity Architecture” and “The New Paradigm II – ‘Fractal Architecture’”. In the newly added chapters, the author proclaims the birth of new trends in contemporary architecture, saying that its future will belong to fractals, universe and waving forms. Analyzing this thesis further one can notice certain inconsistencies in Charles Jencks’ argumentation and so the author of this article writes a polemic, suggesting appropriate principles of fractal architecture based on mathematical theory of fractals.