Architecture or evolution : Charles Jencks' evolutionary tree

Charles Jencks, the architectural historian, critic, and architect, posited an
"Evolutionary Tree" of Modern Architecture in the October 1970 edition of
Architectural Design magazine. [Figure l] While this is not the first attempt to create an evolutionary tree, it was the first of its kind in architectural history to systematize how the exigencies of architectural production change. This thesis argues that Jencks' diagram embodies a specific methodology, in which history can be visually registered as a phenetic proposition - not as a set of discrete, teleological trajectories.

Digitization of this thesis was made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust, 2015.

Thesis originally deposited on 2016-02-18 in version 1.28 of Libra. This thesis was migrated to Libra2 on 2017-03-23 16:33:49.