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Event-Cities 4: Concept-Form

Event-Cities 4: Concept-Form

Tschumi, Bernard

Paperback

Series: Event-Cities

ArchitectsArchitecture History

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0262512416
ISBN13: 9780262512411
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 3 2010
Pages: 639
Weight: 3.33
Height: 1.91 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Tschumi introduces the concept-form a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept.

Event-Cities 4 is the latest in the Event-Cities series from Bernard Tschumi, documenting recent built and theoretical projects in the context of his evolving views on architecture, urbanism, and design. Event-Cities C4 follows directly from the work ofEvent-Cities 3, which examined the interaction of architectural content, concept, and context. This volume takes the interaction a step further, looking at a series of projects for which program or context are insufficient as a generative conceptual strategy, hence requiring a different approach. Tschumi has said, Over the past years, there is one word I have almost never used, except in order to attack it: 'form.' In Event-Cities 4, Tschumi introduces the concept-form a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept, so that one reinforces the other. The concept may be programmatic, technological, or social. The form may be singular or multiple, regular or irregular. Concept-forms act as organizing devices or common denominators for the multiple dimensions of programs and their evolution over time, and drive the projects featured in this book.

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