Organic Architecture

An attempt to make modern buildings appear natural, often failing because it does not use unfolding.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

chapter

Chapter 16: Form Language And Style
mentions
The chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Organicismframework0.767
Philosophical framework emphasizing wholeness, non-reductionism, and unique emergent features of life systems.
Image in Architectureconcept0.749
The focus on visual imagery or style that leads to forms not attainable by structure-preserving steps.
information architectureconcept0.746
Field Steenson worked in (1997 onwards); term denoting structural design of information systems; borrowed 'architecture' from computer design.
Architecture as Mother-Artconcept0.736
Alexander's characterization of architecture as the fundamental art form that must embody person-stuff
Cognitive Architectureconcept0.733
The compositional structure of the psyche introduced by Newell and Simon; the paper uses it to decompose mind into conscious and unconscious parts
Architecture as structure (computing)concept0.733
The definition of 'architecture' in computing as the structural design of systems, dating to 1960s mainframes, central to information architecture.
techno-architectureconcept0.732
Necessary Morphology of Architectureconcept0.730
The claim that living structures inevitably share a recognizable morphological character arising from truthful unfolding.