Siteless: 1001 Building Forms
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262026309 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has worked for architectural firms in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, and New York, with such architects as Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman.. François Blanciak is an architect and Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo
NZarch said Extremely helpful if your stuck in the design process. I would recommend this book to anybody who sometimes struggles with coming up with new ideas or often gets stuck in the design process I often flick through this book for inspiration or ideas. The forms inside do not necessarily need to be replicated, but can often lead to developments in your own ideas.A really helpful, small book that should be kept in any architecture students backpack. architecture student's secret weapon This book makes a compelling opening written statement, laying out his process. Then what follows is a set of 3d 'parti' drawings, siteless, scaleless architectural 'units', drawn with a scrupulous knowledge of Jacob Chernikov's scrupulously minimal style. Each drawing is an intense, little HAND DRAWN architectural configuration, a pure expression of gestural thought, and the resulting wellspring of direct architectural applications they suggest will be a tempting crutch for a student. Any of these vivid diagrams can jar the archi. "To the magic of architectural creativity" according to Tor O. Austigard. To claim this book just adds to the general tendency of contemporary architecture seeking the immediately shocking, superficial and easily publishable is perhaps a sign of precisely this tendency: people losing the ability to dwell on things long enough for their imagination to come out.Once applied on actual architecture these concepts would need to be closely linked to program, scale and site to be interesting. However in the initial program-, scale- and siteless condition they are presented in this book, they evoke intense imag
The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions.. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. 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. Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. 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. 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 t
Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you'll get a sense of François Blanciak's marvelously inventive new book. (Santa Fe New Mexican) . His astoundingly imaginative 1,001 designs could challenge architects and engineers for decades. (Metropolis)In Siteless: 1001 Building Forms, French architect François Blanciak surrenders the usual anchors of function and site for an exercise in pure form