SITELESS
1001 Building Forms
$47.82
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
29 February 2008
Summary
An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content.Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that see…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262026307 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262026309 |
| Author: | François Blanciak |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 29 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 6mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you’ll get a sense of François Blanciak’s marvelously inventive new book.
—MetropolisIn Siteless: 1001 Building Forms, French architect François Blanciak surrenders the usual anchors of function and site for an exercise in pure form. His astoundingly imaginative 1,001 designs could challenge architects and engineers for decades.
—Santa Fe New MexicanAbout The Author
François Blanciak
Fran ois Blanciak is an architect and Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has worked for architectural firms in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, and New York, with such architects as Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman.
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