Research Catalog

Title

Siteless : 1001 building forms / François Blanciak.

Author

Blanciak, François.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

xi, 114 pages : chiefly illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• Form (Aesthetics)
• Architecture > Composition, proportion, etc

Contents

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

ISBN

• 9780262026307 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262026309 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007015858
• 40015309126

OCLC

• 123377326
• ocn123377326
• SCSB-5399465

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries