The Fragile Alliance-On the Relation Between Complexity Architecture and Complexity Science

After abandoning Deconstructivism, complexity architecture turned to seek alliances with complexity science to form an exact and rigorous design system with nonlinear algorithm generation as the core, so as to break through the modernism architectural paradigm. Through discussion on the problems that the alliance has always faced such as catering to fashion trends and business culture, destroying "complexity" due to compromise in the process of implementation, the necessity of logic and reality, the applicability of complexity science in the research of architecture as basic element of urban space were analyzed. Based on that, the alliance between complexity architecture and complexity science was considered to be not stable. The alliance with complexity science seemed to increase the scientific quality of complexity architecture and the proportion of scientific judgment in its creation, however, architecture as a social product could not be separated from value judgment, otherwise it would inevitably damage the applicability of architecture.