Siteless: 1001 Building Forms
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262026309 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. 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)
Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. 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. Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions.. 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 if architects liberated their minds fro
Not Just for Architects I received this book less than an hour ago and it blew my mind. I am an artist not an architect. Each little drawing is a wonderful perspective study. I will be using this book to copy, explore, and extend these forms. The only thing the drawings are missing are shadows, but I think this omission was on purpose to keep these forms truly siteless in the arch. robert kevin pratt said Interesting Shapes. Almost no text whatsoever if I remember correctly which isn't bad. It has very very interesting shapes. I seriously do not know what you can apply to those shapes but I use them to sketch and improve on my shadows and sketching. I bought it thinking it would inspire me to make some architectural models but that was not the case some of those shapes are very. "GREAT for IDEAS" according to Steven. bought mine during the summer. definitely worth to go through each form and try to develop a mini project out of that.The content in this book is extremely helpful in order to generate the initial massing during the design process. I'd definitely recommend this book for architecture students out there to check out this book.
François 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.