Siteless : 1001 building forms / François Blanciak.

By:

Blanciak, François [author.]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780262026307

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

721 22

LOC classification:

NA2760 .B52 2008

Contents:

Ch. 1. Hong Kong -- Ch. 2. New York -- Ch. 3. Copenhagen -- Ch. 4. Los Angeles -- Ch. 5. Tokyo -- Ch. 6. Scale Test.

Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	721 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A555071B

Ch. 1. Hong Kong -- Ch. 2. New York -- Ch. 3. Copenhagen -- Ch. 4. Los Angeles -- Ch. 5. Tokyo -- Ch. 6. Scale Test.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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