Patrik Schumacher's new book "The Autopoiesis of Architecture. A Comprehensive Theory of Architecture in 2 Volumes"

Patrick Schumacher (Zaha Hadid)'s new book "The Autopoiesis of Architecture, A Comprehensive Theory of Architecture in 2 volumes" is available. The first volume "A New Framework for Architecture" is available in Amazon.co.uk but not yet in amazon.com (it will be available in February 2011), or in your local bookstore.
It will be followed by the volume 2 "A New Agenda for Architecture".

A short presentation of the book:

The aim is a comprehensive theoretical system that offers itself to architecture as its comprehensive self-description describing architecture from within architecture, in its internal constitution, and in its relationship to its societal environment. The premise here is that architecture has always already constituted itself self-referentially, via its own autonomous, disciplinary discourse…

In Patrik Schumacher's website, you'll find the contents.

Title : The Autopoiesis of Architecture. A Comprehensive Theory of Architecture in 2 Volumes
Paperback: 478 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.