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1001 Building Forms-Siteless
출판년도 : 2008
ISBN/ISSN : 978
사이즈(mmxmm) : 137x205
장수 : 125
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인쇄상태 : B/W
삽화갯수 : 1001
사용언어 : English
제본 : Pb
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  • 출판사 :
  • MIT Press
  • 출판년도 :
  • 2008
  • 소비자가 :
  • 23,000원
  • 판매가 :
  • 23,000원
  • 적립금 :
  • 590원
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SITELESS 1001 Building Forms François Blanciak Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Chapter One: Hong Kong 1 Chapter Two: New York 23 Chapter Three: Copenhagen 35 Chapter Four: Los Angeles 51 Chapter Five: Tokyo 79 Chapter Six: Scale Test 101 Credits 116 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 seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published. The 1001 building forms in SITELESS include structural parasites, chain-link towers, ball-bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing--and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. SITELESS presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from. The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a "scale test," showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions. Reviews "Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you’ll get a sense of François Blanciak's marvelously inventive new book." -- Metropolis