The Research Of Nonlinear Morphosis In Contemporary Architectures

Contemporary science is in the historical vicissitude from traditional linear science to burgeoning non-linear science and substantial complex phenomenon that was once disdained by orthodox rationality commence to be subordinated into scientific field of vision and treated accurately. Researches concerning the affiliation between architectural style and scientific history demonstrate that the progress of science and the transformation of scientific sense constantly alter and deepen the popular cognition of the world by remolding and reshaping the common world outlook and cosmology and then influence the architects'creative intentions and enrich their design languages. To some extent, we can even say that the emergence of the new scientific ideology induces the shift of the idea and approach in architectural design and engenders the new architectural style as well as a series of formal characteristics and the logic of formal languages. Furthermore, the historical experience illuminates us that the rising and the influence of the current complex science, for example the nonlinear science in particular, will inevitably touches the architectural field and cause the architects'creative intentions and both the form and style of their architecture design to mutation correspondingly. The fact that the increasing number of the complex spacious forms with typical nonlinear features appear in contemporary architectures testifies this historical experience. Thus, Charles Jencks boldly alleges that the nonlinear architecture will become the next architectural millennium under the guidance of the complex science. Focusing on the topic of the nonlinear morphosis in contemporary architectures, this essay not only roughly apperceives and retrospects the roots of the existence and the evolutional process of the nonlinear morphosis in contemporary architectures, but systematically and comprehensively analysis the nonlinear morphosis in contemporary architectures by going deep into all levels of the architectural morphosis, ranging from interface form, architectural form, structural form to urban form, in order to conclude tentatively the formal characteristics and the logic of the formal languages of the nonlinear morphosis in contemporary architectures.