ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 proposed that architecture is made holistic and whole-minded by the confluence of two spheres: namely the strategic and physical aspects of design. Kelso’s work on Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems) offered both an analogous model and a literal mechanism from neuroscience that explains the two-sphere proposition: wherein the animation of the human mind is made whole through the complex amalgamation of our more emotive left brain with our more rational right brain hemispheres. 1 An echo of those left-plus right-side cognitions was also illustrated by Louis Kahn’s aphorism on the measurable and immeasurable components of design process. 2 In all cases, the whole is presented as something different and more than just the sum of the two halves. In all cases as well, the whole is predicated on complexity. This chapter will scope the nature of that complexity from different perspectives and examine its basis in dynamic systems, especially in the relation of this complexity to architecture.
